“A woman who says 'because I am working I will not be a mother' is actually denying her feminity.”

—  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

As quoted in "Turkey's Erdogan says childless women are 'incomplete'" http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/turkey-erdogan-childless-women-incomplete-160606042442710.html, Al Jazeera (June 6, 2016)

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