Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) Quotes

It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.

Norma McCorvey

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• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Experience
  • Best
  • Come

• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Love
  • Artist

• During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Up
  • Black

• All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Want
  • Best
  • I Can

• I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Country
  • History
  • Gay

• Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • Choice
  • Writer

• America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Country
  • Me
  • Offer

• After the first million, money isn't important.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Important
  • Money
  • First

• One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Children

• When a man counts one, two, three, he is not only doing mathematics, he is on the path to the mysticism of numbers in Pythagoras and Vitruvius and Kepler, to the Trinity and the signs of the Zodiac.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Path

• How Long Is the Coast of Britain?

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Long

• And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

  

  Edward Young

• It is better to have a retarded president who respects human values than a clever government without human values.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Clever

• I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • People
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Life
  • Live
  • Art

• We need one America - one that includes housing, education, jobs, access to capital, and economic inclusion for every American. This will create a stronger America.

  

  Byron Allen
  • American
  • America
  • Education

• As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Men
  • Women
  • inspirational

• A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Mind
  • Movies

• A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • God
  • Important
  • Children

• Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ. As long as he remains in the flesh, unregenerate, he will never choose Christ. He cannot choose Christ precisely because he cannot act against his own will. His fall is so great that only the effectual grace of God working in his heart can bring him to faith.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Great
  • God
  • Long

• Here is a little mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God, and the body in which it dwells is worth all it will cost, since it is abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mothers heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, to her most tender cares, to her life-long prayers! Oh how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • God
  • Friends
  • Kiss

• It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.

  

  Norma McCorvey
  • God
  • Body
  • Choice