Puritan Women

Famous quotes containing the words puritan and/or women:

“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

“Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.”
—Betty Rollin (b. 1936)