Uterus Quotes

“Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what few precious gifts they would ever get. She cried for Bailey, for Tibby, for the resolute clump of cells making headway in her uterus, and for Marly, her poor, sad mother, who'd missed everything.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

“If the cardiologist thinks the heart is a wonderful organ, the cardiologist never have heard of the uterus.”
― Elmar P. Sakala

“You better fucking tell us where your little buddies are, or I am going to kick your uterus out, you fucking cunt.”
― Brian Michael Bendis, Powers, Vol. 5: Anarchy

“Suzanne and I are pregnant!"

"I didn't realize you had a uterus,”
― Nalini Singh, Cherish Hard

“The task of the cervix is to stay closed, to make an impenetrable wall protecting the fetus, for approximately forty weeks of a pregnancy. After that, by means of labor, the wall must somehow become an opening. This happens through dilation, which is not a shattering, but an extreme thinning.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“This sounded good — I like physical experiences that involve surrender. I didn’t know, however, very much about experiences that demand surrender — that run over you like a truck, with no safe word to stop it. I was ready to scream, but labor turned out to be the quietest experience of my life.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“… When I'm ready,

my uterus will lunar eclipse.
You could have been

my baby. I was almost your mother.
In the gap, I left you to fall–

jarred starlight, steaming.”
― Joanna C. Valente, Marys of the Sea

“I was giving my final cast notes when the cramping began. I went to the girls' bathroom, sat down in a stall, and pulled down my jeans.
I apologize in advance for what I am about to describe.
Imagine a jellyfish as big as an ashtray. Now turn that jellyfish dark bloodred and multiply it by a few hundred. Now imagine pulling down your Sergio Valente jeans and seeing hundreds of ashtray-size bloodred jellyfish pouring out of you. That's what happened to me.
"AUUUUUUUUUGH!" I started screaming.
AUUUUUUGH!"
The bloody pieces - the lining of my uterus, I guess- kept gushing from my body and into the water. It was like my insides were falling out. I tried to catch them in my hands to stop it. There was too much. Plunk. plunk, plunk, plunk. It was endless. A deluge!”
― Cat Marnell, How to Murder Your Life

“I bet he carved his name on the walls of your uterus, too, warning off any potential future siblings. The bastard.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight