Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

Most women I've ever met either already have or at some point want kids, but there are still significant numbers who don't, or at least don't right now. But those variations are beside the point - the real point is that among all those women, having or wanting kids or not, I never met a single one who didn't want the choice.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

Reproductive choice is a fundamental human right and we can never take it for granted. On this issue, you're either with us or against us.

No government should dictate whether or when we should have children….Reproductive freedom is a basic human right.

I think a lot of women feel pressure to have kids, especially when you get engaged. And for me, I'm like, I don't want that pressure on myself.

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I - and probably a lot of other feminists - wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value - it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.

We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.

Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use of herbal potions to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were made from animal bladders.

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.

People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

It is the patriotic duty of women to bear four children.

Reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right. We therefore oppose government interference in the reproductive decisions of Americans.

We recognized ‘the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.’ That right necessarily includes the right of a woman to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

If the vice president thinks it’s disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and if he believes that a woman cannot adequately raise a child without a father, then he’d better make sure that abortion remains safe and legal.

In America, access to birth control is controlled by those who never use it.