“Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.” CountryGirlBabyMonthsSixFemaleIndiaShameMinistersPrimeTraveledShockingPrime MinisterSix MonthsSystematicEliminationBaby GirlFetus Author:Elizabeth Vargas
“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsBelieveChildrenBodyFormThreeLosesChanceAbilityMillionsTechnologyFeminismBabyEvolutionFemaleAspectClaimsSuperiorsThirtyBreastsMakersFormulasMilkNursingThirty YearsBreastfeedingFemale Power Author:Christiane Northrup
“Although the needs of babies have changed very little over the millennia, over the past decades, female equality in education and occupational opportunities has altered maternal expectations. This renders baby-care requirements discordant with ambition for many mothers, and produces heartfelt dilemmas for others.” NeedsLittlesCarePastMotherOpportunityChangedProduceBabyAmbitionExpectationsFemaleDecadesRequirementsDilemmaAlteredOver The PastHeartfelt Author:Joan Raphael-Leff
“I have an inviolable rule against employing nepots and spouses, because they breed politics. Whenever two people get married, one of them must depart - preferably the female, to look after the baby.” PeopleLooksTwoMoneyBabyMarriedFemaleSpouseEmploying Book:Confessions of an advertising man Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“I was watching the Animal Planet. Did you know that the male seahorse has the baby? Why don't they just call that one the female?” KnowsHumorFunnyAnimalPlanetsBabyFemaleMalesDid You Know Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I was watching Animal Planet. Did you know that the male seahorse has the baby? And I was thinking, "Why don't they just call that the female seahorse?" You know it's just some stubborn scientist. "Yeah, that one there's the male seahorse." And his assistant's like, "Uh, Bill, that one's having a baby." ... "The male has the baby. You're fired."” ThinkingKnowsFunnyAnimalComedyPlanetsBabyFemaleScientistYeahBillsMalesStubbornAssistantsDid You KnowHaving A Baby Author:Jim Gaffigan
“We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. We can and we do. This is what sets us apart from the chimps. They are extremely brutal and hostile. Your next door neighbor is to be killed unless she is a juicy young female, who hasn't yet had her first baby, in which case you want her.” WantFirstsHumansYoungNextSocialResponsibilityCasesGoneDoorsBabyFemaleInstinctNeighborBrutalSocial ResponsibilityHostileJuicyNext Door NeighborsFirst Baby Author:Jane Goodall
“Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a female can enjoy. A father shares in that experience, knowing that he caused it to happen.” HappensFatherEnjoyKnowingShareBabyFemaleRewarding Experiences Author:Jayne Mansfield
“I first understood the changes that were necessary in this world, because the waiters in the restaurant, when I cried, used to say, "Leave her on the hillside to die. She's only a girl baby." I think they said it somewhat as a joke, maybe not, but it made me understand that being born female in this world was very different from being born male.” ThinkingWorldFirstsMadeSaidDifferentUsedDiesGirlBornThis WorldBabyJokesUnderstoodFemaleMalesRestaurantsCriedThey SaidWaiter Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female Emperor penguin in the Antarctic. She lays the egg, rolls it over to the father, then takes off for warmer weather where she eats and eats and eats. For two months, the father stands stiff, without food, blind in the 24-hour dark, balancing the egg on his feet. After the little penguin is hatched, the mother sees fit to come home.” IfsLittlesTwoHomeMotherFatherHoursDarkFeetBabyMonthsFitFemaleBlindLaysWeatherEggsComing HomeEmperorTwo MonthsHaving A BabyPenguinsEgg Rolls Author:L. M. Boyd
“Song writing is about the male-female relationship. Yes, there are songs of, of brotherhood and politics but very rarely do we write about computers or, there are car songs, cars are cool. But even in the car songs, it's, ah, usually gets down to me and my baby and my car.” WritingSongCarBabyComputerFemaleMalesBrotherhoodMy BabyMale Female Author:Jeff Barry
“When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.” PeopleWayKindCharacterStoriesDesireCultureFightingEffortRolesFireViolenceObjectsBabyPicksGunFemaleDoctorsAbuseSafetyWoodsViolentTortureRejectsHospitalsGuardianExpertiseFemale CharactersSquatNot PrettyDisenfranchisedObjects Of Desire Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“What's a problem with India, in particular, is female feticide - aborting a female fetus. It is unacceptable and illegal, but it happens on a large scale. Then there's also the killing of baby girls. Female feticide is pretty much middle-class, Indian experts say. This is not happening among the poor; they just have to keep bearing children and hope they live. This casts into doubt the spurious argument that we just have to wait until everyone's middle class and then all of this will sort itself out. Better-off women will have fewer children - but at what cost?” ChildrenProblemGirlWaitingPoorDoubtBabyFemaleArgumentKillingMiddle ClassBaby Girl Author:Barbara Crossette
“It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.” WellsFactsGuyAsksMillionsBabyFemaleSizeDespiteCellsEggsRelativeThat GuyWisconsinWisconsin Weather Author:Dave Barry
“Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.” WritingSometimesPainAsksNovelBabyFemaleCompareNovelistsHaving A Baby Author:Salman Rushdie
“I am about to impart to you the sacred words my father gave to me. It’s the five responses that will get you out of any female problem…I don’t know what you’re talking about. I didn’t do it. Baby, there’s no one else in my world but you. Oops. And Jesus is Lord. Not to mention you can combine them. Such as – I don’t know what you’re talking about, I didn’t do it, or Jesus is Lord, baby, you know there’s no one else in my world but you. (Jesse) (Simone opens the bathroom door.) Oops, Jesus is Lord. (Xypher)” KnowsWorldProblemFatherJesusTalkingLordFiveDoorsBabyFemaleSacredResponseBathroomImpart Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying "like" all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster.” KindFunnyGirlRealizingBehindsWorstBabyBehaviorAdultsFemaleThirdsLeavingFeministWittySabotageThis GirlBossypantsDumpsters Book:Bossypants Source: Bossypants
“What the—Have you been crying?" Tohrment demanded. "Are you all right? Dear God, is it the baby?" "Tohr, relax. I'm a female, I cry at matings. It's in the job description." There was the sound of a kiss. "I just don't want anything to upset you, leelan." 'Then tell me the brothers are ready." "We are." "Good. I'll bring her out." "Leelan ? " "What?" There were low words spoken in their beautiful language. "Yes, Tohr," Wellsie whispered. "And after two hundred years, I'd mate you again. In spite of the fact that you snore and you leave your weapons all over our bedroom.” WantYearsTwoFactsJobsBeautifulLanguageSoundCryReadyBrotherBabyKissingWeaponsLowsHundredFemaleDearUpsetSpiteRelaxDescriptionMatesBedroomYou AgainDear GodMatingTohrment Author:J.R. Ward
“Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.” NeedsFirstsCultureWhiteCryBabyFemaleMalesPhonesRobust Book:Lean In for Graduates Source: Lean In for Graduates