Childbearing Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is…
— Betty Rollin
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Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals,…
— David R. Brower
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Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.
— Andrea Dworkin
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By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness…
— Margaret Sanger
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When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging…
— Lisa See
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Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women’s capacities in…
— Ina May Gaskin
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The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the two months following the birth.…
— Susun Weed
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of…
— Marquis de Sade
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I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as…
— Beth Ditto
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
— Norman Mailer
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It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by…
— George Orwell
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A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six…
— Anna Quindlen
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I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and…
— George Orwell
Who Wrote These Childbearing Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Childbearing Quotes as follows: