Childbearing Quote by Plutarch

“Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into its tender…

— Roman Payne

“imagine the desert mothers, with hair tangled tighter than their theology and breasts that flowed milk and mystic wisdom. they knew how to draw…

— Beth Morey

“Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“When asked by a woman from Attica:'Why are you Spartan women the only ones who can rule men?', she said: 'Because we are the…

— Plutarch

“A woman's true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind.”

— Joseph Conrad

Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to…

— Ellen Key

“It is not biology alone but heroism too that drives women to find the will and grit and creativity to put one’s own impulses…

— Naomi Wolf

“The baneful consequences which flow from inattention to health during infancy, and youth, extend further than is supposed, dependence of body naturally produces dependence…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Only Spartan women give birth to real men.

— Queen of Sparta Gorgo

In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain,…

— Anne Frank

“Women are like parasitical plants, casting their wild tendrils from one tree to another, till, swollen into tough cordage, they strangle those they embrace,…

— Edward John Trelawny

“in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. And what’s her reward for enduring all…

— Anne Frank