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 already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.
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I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better.
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Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.
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I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it.
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There was a time when you would dream about, say, movie stars. Now, you virtually follow them into their bathroom when they're going to the loo.
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Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.
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The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.
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In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.
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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.
