Debra

“These older generation mothers knew that they were absolutely indispensable at times like these, and it gave them a great sense of fulfilment, an ongoing purpose in life.”
― Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

“Everything’s absolutely fine really—except that sometimes I think I can’t go on any more”
― Susan Howatch, Glittering Images

“I hoped with every mothering cell in my body. I hoped with every scrap of power and will, every particle of knowing you, the years and years of you, the joy and hurt, the work and pride, the worry and love. I hoped until it hurt. I hoped so hard I felt it finally turn to prayer.”
― Jan Ellison, A Small Indiscretion

“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