When you're in the middle of having a baby, it's a bit like watching two very inefficient removal men, trying to get a very large sofa through a very… - Victoria Woodhull

[On a difficult relationship with her mother, Helen] If she'd only gone out to work, we would all have been a lot happier. Being in the house drove her mad. She hated housework, cooking. She'd go into the garden and chop down trees. She was full of energy and batting against the walls with it. And this gave me a real sense that you had to have your own life. It's ridiculous to stay at home with your children if it drives you nuts. Children would much rather see a happy, smiley person come back.

The rights of children, then, as individuals, begin while yet they are in fetal life. Children do not come into existence by any will or consent of their own.

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child, nor think of murdering one before its birth.