She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. A… — Margaret Sanger

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

Margaret SangerActivist · American · 1879 – 1966

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. — Mark Twain
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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