Family Quote by Geraldine Brooks

“...I believe woman could manage everything in the world without men's help–except birthing babies...”

— Margaret Mitchell

“Surely the Women were created (...) for some better end, than to labour in vain their whole life long.”

— Lady Sophia Fermor

“Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.”

— Dakota Dawn

“I used to wonder why... Mum kept having babies... that was the only pleasure poor people could afford . It cost nothing--at least at…

— Margaret Powell

“was particularly hard for women now, when there were so many children left without”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“For the first time since giving birth so many years before, I grew weary of motherhood, and wondered how many more generations of women…

— Jean Sasson

“Of course, women have always worked, that is to say, raised children, tended to the home, grown crops, etc., and how different the history…

— Nina Power

“Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“If men had to have babies there wouldn’t be any sex life left.”

— Thorne Smith

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“In a woman's womb another chance to make the world a better place.”

— Ellen Hopkins

“It was never reasonable or fair that women should shoulder the burden of household management, but it is possible that in an effort to…

— Julianne Malveaux