Debra

“These men, we’ve been told, are like war criminals. It’s no excuse that what they did was legal at the time: their crimes are retroactive. They have committed atrocities and must be made into examples, for the rest. Though this is hardly needed. No woman in her right mind, these days, would seek to prevent a birth, should she be so lucky as to conceive. What”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Though she thought of her body as a mass of frailties, she considered her soul quite as ill, and therefore important in her life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Parenthood only ends with the grave.”
― Susan Howatch, Glittering Images