「當談論到生或不生、生育率等這些關於嬰兒的事情，」夏綠蒂·柏金斯·吉爾曼曾如此寫過。
“All this talk, for and against and about babies, ” wrote Charlotte Perkins Gilman,

「總是男人在談論這些，幾乎要使人以為是男人在生育嬰兒、哺餵嬰兒、撫養嬰兒...事實是女人在孕育下一代而男人再殺了他們。」
“is by men. One would think the men bore the babies, nursed the babies, reared the babies.. . . The women bear and rear the children. The men kill them.