James Nicoll Quotes

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. A woman enchained cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters. No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

The pill was the liberation of the spirit of women.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.

We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.

Choice is a uniquely female issue. We don't share the same reproductive systems.

I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.

You'll discover in countries where women have control over their own bodies, where they have education, where they have birth control, where they have facilities and where they are literate, when those things happen, the birth rate falls.

Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that.

Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.

I'm 100 percent in support of women's rights, the right of a woman to make her own choice.

The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.

If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.

Voting means very little…if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right. Not one wife in a thousand can do that now, & so long as she suffers this bondage, all other rights will not help her to her true position.

Women have a choice where we have a president who has our back or one who turns his back.

With the development of the [birth control] pill, “womanhood” would no longer mean the same thing as “motherhood”.

I come from a family of five women. I would never pretend to tell one of my sisters what to do with her body, and don’t want the Federal Government doing that, either.

I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.

People still create limitations and laws for women. But every woman deserves to choose her own path.

If you want to truly stand up for women's reproductive rights, then stand against birth control. Because nothing says anti-woman more than birth control.

I'm impacted by my women's reproductive rights.

Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.