Maternity leave Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

I think it's important that we challenge the idea that women who have babies are not fit for work and don't have value. There…

— Jo Swinson

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of…

— Martin Luther

“women had been sent back home, to manufacture male babies and avoid waste in household expenditures.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“While women workers were struggling to keep their children fed and alive, their leisured sisters were convinced by doctors that they were too delicate…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“In the struggle for power, or simply economic survival in the modern world, many women who have children find that they must curtail mothering,…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

— Barbara Johnson

“Women have a unique power through breastfeeding to maintain health, life and finite resources.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Labor: a powerful medicine.

— Saint John Chrysostom

“Laborsaving devices do not necessarily save time, but they increase our expectactations of what mothers should accomplish”

— Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

— Dale Dauten

Because women get more labor rights than men, meaning they get maternity leave, the employer prefers to hire men.

— Jair Bolsonaro

“The links between hospital deliveries, over-medicalised birthing practices and the 20th-century decline of breastfeeding are strong.”

— Gabrielle Palmer