What is certain is that I have never done it, and that I never meant to do it.

But we ought not to have children when we cannot support them.

Pardon me, madame; nature means us to have offspring, since the earth produces sustenance enough for all; but it is the rich, it is your class, which robs mine of the bread of my children....

I know that foundlings are not delicately nurtured; so much the better for them, they become more robust.

They have nothing superfluous given to them, but they have everything that is necessary.