Childbearing Quotes - Page 2

• There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.

  John Brunner

  War, Stupid, Responsibility

  "Stand on Zanzibar". Book by John Brunner, 1968.

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• Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn't consistent to me.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Eight, Government, Practice

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• No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Parent, Healthy

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.89, Cosimo, Inc.

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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 my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

  Beth Ditto

  Mom, Baby, Dolls

  "I'm 30 and feel under huge pressure to have kids. What should I do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2007.

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