Dawn Johnsen Quotes
The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.'
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.
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A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
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There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.
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The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.
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I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
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If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.
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I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.
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We are genuinely in a world that criticises women even when they are going through the biggest physical challenge of their life: pregnancy.
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Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing.
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I was just so focused on being healthy for my baby during pregnancy, and afterward I was not in a rush to lose the weight. I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn't about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized.
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Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
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It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.
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My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years.
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I don't think that the United States has the bulk of the responsibility. I really put that on Bashar Assad and on the Iraqis and on the region itself.
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For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
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The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.'
