"Childbearing is glorified in part because women die…" — Andrea Dworkin

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• Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not… — Betty Rollin
• Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be… — David R. Brower
• By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea,… — Margaret Sanger
• When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke… — Lisa See
• Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential… — Ina May Gaskin
• The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the… — Susun Weed
• Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms,… — Marquis de Sade
• I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve… — Beth Ditto
• Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. — Norman Mailer
• It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by… — George Orwell
• A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me… — Anna Quindlen
• I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female.… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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