Being a mother Quote by Betty Rollin

“Women have childbearing equipment. To choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man…

— Betty Rollin

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

— Germaine Greer

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

— Anonymous

No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know…

— Emma Goldman

I think the issue of women's choice is essential for a woman being able to have their lives - if they cannot control their…

— Tavis Smiley

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

— Ann Oakley

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

— Joseph Hertz

And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never...…

— Zoe Kazan

We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

— Clare Wright

If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength, seems to…

— Phyllis Chesler

When I say, 'I want women to have control over their bodies,' I mean that I want women to know and embrace their fertility.

— Abby Johnson

Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and…

— Katha Pollitt