Abortion opponents love little babies as long as they are in somebody else's uterus. —Joycelyn Elders More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either. —Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The product, abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the woman at the crisis time in her life. She buys the product, finds it defective, and wants to return it for a refund. But it's too late. —Carol Everett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice-cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg. —Frederica Mathewes-Green More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact. —Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia Throws a Wedding More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. —Said to Florynce Kennedy and Gloria Steinem by a female taxi driver in Boston More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests, but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? —Sonya Renee Taylor More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual. —Sarah Weddington, lead prosecuting attorney in Roe v. Wade, 1972 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There has always been a sliver of panic in him, deeply buried, when it comes to his daughter: a fear that he is no good as a father, that he is doing everything wrong. . . . There is pride, too, . . . that his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That's how it feels right now: . . . as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane. —Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don't you think? —George Saunders, Tenth of December More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. —Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone. —John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the stuff with hormones and girls and cars and beers began, Harry wanted out of fatherhood. —John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that — a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest. —Debra Ginsberg More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email