„No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death, but oh, thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation that impelled her to the crime!“

— Susan B. Anthony

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„You wonder about her crime. She was condemnedto death for stealing clothes from her employer, fromthe wife of her employer. She wished to make herselfmore beautiful. This desire in servants was not legal.“
— Margaret Atwood
„Her green eyes fluttered swiftly twice or thrice, then glazed,her mouth gaped open, bleating, then her jaws hung looseand retched up all her soul in lumps of clotting blood.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis