maternity quotes

War is to man as maternity to women.

- Benito also called Il Duce [the Leader] Mussolini
  Speech, May. Quoted in Denis Mack-Smith Mussolini's Roman Empire (1976), p.54.

The Old Testament makes woman a mere after-thought in creation; the author of evil; cursed in her maternity; a subject in marriage; and all female life, animal and human, unclean.

- Elizabeth ne  e  Cady Stanton
  TheWoman's Bible, pt.2, preface.