Only 4 percent of adults say they will be satisfied if they never have children.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about children
Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about union, state
People in the United States, on average, marry in their mid to late 20s, and half of all divorces take place in the first seven years of marriage.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about marriage, people
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about eyes, love, reason
The empty cradle is fueled too by versions of feminism that encourage women to repress or distrust maternal desire.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about encouragement
The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about vision, union, chance, order, power
The greatest danger we face may be from illiberals like Reich who seek ways to de-legitimize and disenfranchise (rather than engage) ideas with which they disagree.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about danger, face
The reason is really quite simple: Cultures, communities, religions, sects and societies that lose the marriage idea die out.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about marriage, idea, reason, death
The set of ideas that lead a culture, a religion, a court to endorse same-sex marriage are simply not sustainable over the long haul.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about culture, marriage, religion, sex
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6...Quote by Maggie Gallagher about students, mathematics, school
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about revolution, tragedy, beginning, sex, end
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops recently formed a task force to struggle with how to deal with pro-choice Catholic politicians.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about fight, force, police
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about faith, state, moral, public, rightness
What Oregon's suicide laws actually do is convey social approval to individuals contemplating self-destruction, and to their friends and relatives.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about destruction, self-control
Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about defects
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about culture, marriage, sex
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about power
Worse, legal approval of suicide amounts to a declaration to the old, sick and vulnerable that others consider their lives worthless.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about old, olderness