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.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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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.
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People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
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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.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.
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After the first million, money isn't important.
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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.
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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.
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How Long Is the Coast of Britain?
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And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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It is better to have a retarded president who respects human values than a clever government without human values.
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Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
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In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.
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It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
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If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God (in his heart and life)
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It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.
