“Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.” MotherBornMotherhoodDeniedUnbornDespisedUnmarried Author:Caroline Norton
“Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.” ShouldChildrenMotherMarriedRegardMotherhoodGrantedConventionsReverenceHonorableStandpointUnmarriedDishonorable Author:Ben Lindsey
“A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.” ShouldLooksKindFactsMotherGirlSocialCausesBirthDiseaseShadowAcknowledgeHypocrisyEnlightenedFacts Of LifeBirth ControlImpunityUnmarried Book:A Matter of Life and Death Source: A Matter of Life and Death