Showing posts with label mother. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mother. Show all posts

Sunday, May 08, 2016

Quote of the Day for 2016-05-08, Mother's Day


"All I am or can be I owe to my angel-mother."

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Quoted by William Herndon to George Alfred Townsend in The real life of Abraham Lincoln (1867)

Hagar and Ishmael by Jean Charles Cazin (1880)

Monday, October 05, 2015

Quote of the Day for 2015-10-05


"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother."

Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) Women and the New Race

Cover of the Birth Control Review for November 1923, from The American Birth Control League, the precursor to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America