motherhood quotes

Motherhood will only be a joyous and responsible human act when women are free to make, with full conscious choice and full human responsibility, the decisions to become mothers.

- Betty (Elizabeth) Naomi ne  e  Goldstein Friedan
  Speech at First National Conference for Repeal of Abortion Laws, Chicago.

Quite as many false ideas prevail as to woman's true position in the home as to her status elsewhere. Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

- Elizabeth ne  e  Cady Stanton
The History ofWoman Suffrage1848^61, vol.1, introduction.