Alexandra Kimball > Quotes

“They don’t get the particular nature of this grief, how it’s less about the loss of a potential child than it is about the endless possibility that there may yet be an actual child.”
― Alexandra Kimball, The Seed: Infertility Is a Feminist Issue

“It’s not that motherhood is out of reach, it’s that it’s just out of reach. It’s not that motherhood didn’t happen, it’s that it almost did and, in fact, still could. The difference between the grief of infertility and other reasons for mourning - the loss of a spouse, for example - is in that promise of ‘just,’ in ‘almost,’ in ‘still could.”
― Alexandra Kimball, The Seed: Infertility Is a Feminist Issue

“Maybe part of being a feminist is just finding a way to be comfortable with the gap between politics and desire, accepting that there is a way in which feminism will never solve our personal agonies and was never meant to.”
― Alexandra Kimball, The Seed: Infertility Is a Feminist Issue