B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — A Private Word to the Expectant Mother (1919)
“ If you suffer, it is not because you are cursed of God, but because you violate His laws. What an incubus it would take from woman could she be educated to know that the pains of maternity are no curse upon her kind. We know that among the Indians the squaws do not suffer in childbirth. ”
B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — A Private Word to the Expectant Mother (1919)
“ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in a lecture to ladies, thus strongly states her views regarding maternity and painless childbirth:"We must educate our daughters to think that motherhood is grand, and that God never cursed it. And this curse, if it be a curse, may be rolled off, as man has rolled away the curse of labor ”
B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — A Private Word to the Expectant Mother (1919)
“ They will step aside from the ranks, even on the march, and return in a short time to them with the new-born child. What an absurdity then, to suppose that only enlightened Christian women are cursed. But one word of fact is worth a volume of philosophy ”
