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I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

— Ben Lindsey

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.

— Maria Montessori

Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.

— Edith Stein

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

— Elayne Boosler

I don't think I ever once heard Mum utter a religious or spiritual sentiment, a considerable feat considering that she was married for 57 years to one of the most prominent Catholics in the country.

— Christopher Buckley

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

— Erich Fromm

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

— Emma Goldman

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

✗Opposing Perspectives

Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate.

— Sheri L. Dew