Katha Pollitt

Quotes

• “We may revere motherhood, the hazy abstraction, the cream-of-wheat-with-a-halo ideal, but a mother is just a kind of wom...”
• “Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlik...”
• “Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think mother...”
• “Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-stan...”
• “Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that...”
• “If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to ...”
• “Our society encourages women to place a very high value on maternity as an essential part of female identity, both a hig...”
• “I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it ...”