Quotes by : Katha Pollitt

If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too....

There had always been a little wiggle room in state abortion laws, because doctors were still permitted....

Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as....

Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social....

I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't....

Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding....

Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know....

Our society encourages women to place a very high value on maternity as an essential part of female identity,....

We may revere motherhood, the hazy abstraction, the cream-of-wheat-with-a-halo ideal, but a mother is....