Quotes from Sandra Steingraber

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

The time trends and spatial features of cancer's occurrence around the globe clearly belie the notion that cancer is a random misfortune. Cancer associates with westernization. Whereas forty years ago, cancer was mostly a disease of wealthy nations, half of all cancers now occur in developing nations, particularly those rapidly industrializing.

Prenatal care means taking care of water, fish, and glaciers.

birth defects, as well as congenital heart problems, were elevated in communities served by a drinking water reservoir that had been contaminated with the herbicide atrazine. Atrazine, on the market since 1959 and banned for use in much of Europe, is the most popular pesticide used in the United States.

I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too.

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.