--- title: "4 Female Infanticide Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 4 Female Infanticide quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Female Infanticide sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/nita-ambani-14168_against_we-have-to-join-hands-and-fight-against_249062.jpg" --- > [We have to join hands and fight against female infanticide, when life is snuffed out the minute people find out it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nita-ambani/we-have-to-join-hands-and-fight-against-female-infanticide-when-life/) [Nita Ambani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nita-ambani/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/nita-ambani-14168_against_we-have-to-join-hands-and-fight-against_249062.jpg) > [China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. There was foot binding, female infanticide,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-d-kristof/china-was-probably-the-worst-place-in-the-world-to-grow-up-female-100/) [Nicholas D. Kristof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-d-kristof/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/nicholas-d-kristof-4679_better-place_china-was-probably-the-worst-place-in-th_509084.png) > [Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nita-ambani/preventing-female-infanticide-is-equally-important-in-protection-of/) [Nita Ambani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nita-ambani/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30a/nita-ambani-14168_equally_preventing-female-infanticide-is-equally_750440.jpg) > [“The technological efficiency of daughter-proofing a pregnancy may make it seem as if the girl shortage is a problem of modernity, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pinker/the-technological-efficiency-of-daughter-proofing-a-pregnancy-may/) [Steven Pinker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pinker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f1/steven-pinker-526_parenting_the-technological-efficiency-of-daughter_873391.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/female-infanticide/#itemlist", "name": "Female Infanticide Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We have to join hands and fight against female infanticide, when life is snuffed out the minute people find out it is a girl.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nita Ambani" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nita-ambani/we-have-to-join-hands-and-fight-against-female-infanticide-when-life/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/nita-ambani-14168_against_we-have-to-join-hands-and-fight-against_249062.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/nita-ambani-14168_against_we-have-to-join-hands-and-fight-against_249062.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/nita-ambani-14168_against_we-have-to-join-hands-and-fight-against_249062.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We have to join hands and fight against female infanticide, when life is snuffed out the minute people find…” — Nita Ambani", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. 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In India there were many methods: “giving a pill of tobacco and bhang to swallow, drowning in milk, smearing the mother’s breast with opium or the juice of the poisonous Datura, or covering the child’s mouth with a plaster of cow-dung before it drew breath.” Then and now, even when daughters are suffered to live, they may not last long. 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