Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) Quotes

I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.

Norma McCorvey

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• My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Up
  • Women
  • Change

• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Up
  • You
  • Growing

• Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • People
  • American
  • Immigrant

• The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Success
  • Better
  • Chicago

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Job
  • Mother
  • Waiting

• I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Good
  • Think
  • Here

• The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Star
  • First
  • Week

• I think I really benefited from going to college.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • College
  • Going

• Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • You
  • Politics
  • Turn

• You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • History
  • Media
  • Social Media

• My best friend is my husband.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Husband

• The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Earth
  • Forever
  • Stand

• There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Victim
  • Places

• Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.

  

  Helen McCrory
  • Thinking
  • Care

• I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Writing
  • Home
  • College

• I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.

  

  Norma McCorvey
  • Care
  • Felt