#maternal

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#few #honduras #lanka #led #like

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#bush #cameroon #cut #difficult #expand

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene. ↗

— Dan Savage

#allergic #dogs #even #gay #gene

I can be maternal with my friends. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#i #i can #maternal

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#also #contraception #declines #directly #families

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother. ↗

— Al Pacino

#army #became #college #college education #dad

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#gynergy #maternal-influence #motherhood #power #motherhood

I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#lot #maternal #me #men #nothing

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#free #guise #health #intimidate #into

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#behind #child #cut #even #feeling