Almighty Quote by Grantly Dick-Read

“For within the very structure of family life, in families that do or did embrace the male religions, are the almost invisibly accepted social…

— Merlin Stone

Almost every one of the great religions of the world has made special provisions for them, and the woman who has preferred a celibate…

— Mary Livermore

Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Women who were reputed believers began to resort to drugs for producing sterility. They also girded themselves around, so as to expel what was…

— Hippolytus of Rome

“That’s how God created us: wealth is a crime and poverty is a punishment, though the punishment is not given to the one who…

— Amos Oz

“Only a woman can carry in her body an eternal being which bears the very image of God. Only she is the recipient of…

— Douglas W. Phillips

You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of…

— Howard W. Hunter

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling…

— Anonymous

“The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that. I was…

— Philippa Gregory

A woman by her very nature is maternal -- for every woman, whether ... married or unmarried, is called upon to be a biological,…

— Alice von Hildebrand

“[T]he contradiction in Catholicism, that at the same time marriage is holy and celibacy is holy. This simply realises as a practical contradiction, the…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

“Mary, mother of Jesus, pays for her maternity by giving up her body, almost entirely: she foregoes both (hetero) sexual pleasure (Christ's birth is…

— Phyllis Chesler