“For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.” GivingMeanAbleOur LivesEconomicBirthElementsSexualityWelfareCrucialReproductionExpectancyLife Expectancy Author:Gloria Steinem
“Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.” MoralPracticeEconomicBirthRevolutionaryBirth Control Book:A Preface to Morals Source: A Preface to Morals
“The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.” MenGivingHumansEndsFormDiesStrongBornConsciousnessEconomicDyingEmotionalBirthPeriodsDemandOptimismCrisisConstantErrorsProsperityExcitedErasExcitementGiantsPessimismInfantVaryLiableHuman ConsciousnessNew EraGravitationElasticityStrong Emotional Author:Arthur Cecil Pigou
“The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.” GivingReasonSituationEconomicBirthGive MeClimateRateOptimisticRisingBeing OptimisticBirth Rate Author:David Attenborough
“Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning for women. If women cannot plan their pregnancies, they can plan little else in their lives.” IfsMeanLittlesPoliticalRightsPlansEconomicBirthPregnancyConceptionTimingWomens RightsBirth ControlPolitical Rights Book:The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir Source: The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir
“Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his own happiness in any way that he chooses. No one has the authority to grant rights to anyone else, because human beings already possess all natural rights at birth. These rights include both personal and economic freedoms, and the only way they can be lost is if someone takes them away by force. The only right that an individual does not naturally possess is the right to violate someone else's liberty.” IfsWayHumansDoeBodyIndividualLostForceNaturalHuman BeingsLibertyRightsEconomicBirthEqualAuthorityAbsolutesPropertyPursueGrantsSovereigntyEconomic FreedomNatural Rights Author:Robert Ringer
“But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.” TryingWarHappensKnowingEconomicBirthCurrentsPregnancyConceptionCollapseDerivativesEconomic Collapse Author:Annia Ciezadlo