Pro-Family...Pro-Child...Pro-Choice

This is for myself, my daughter, my mother, my sisters, and my friends

"... in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. ... If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to forment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or Representation." - Abigail Adams, letter to her husband John, March 31, 1776.

"I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethern is that they take their feet from off our necks."
-SARAH GRIMKE, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, 1838

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)

Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone. -Gertrude B. Stein

"When we become teenagers our developing bodies are usually a mystery to us. We discover there is only one norm for beauty--a commercial norm, a Hollywood norm. TV sells us products as we agonize over breasts, hair, legs and skin that will never--ever--measure up. We lose respect for our uniqueness, our own smells and shapes and ways of doing things. We look to others to reassure us that we are, despite all this, okay. We learn to judge ourselves in relation to others and images from the media. The constant comparing leads to a competitiveness that separates us from each other.
-BOSTON WOMEN'S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE, Our Bodies, Ourselves, 2nd ed., 1976

"I’m not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. This is my body. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand." - Marge Piercy

"I'm tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I'm tired of acting like I don't eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I'm tired of saying, 'How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it." --Scarlett O'Hara, from Margaret Mitchell's, "Gone With the Wind"

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