Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) Quotes
I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.
Quotes to Explore
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
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Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?
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I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice.
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.
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One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a lot of people together as a coalition, you can get a lot changed.
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I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.
