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“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”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“I try not to live in the past, he thought, but who knows, sometimes the past lives in me.”
― Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
― Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
“Parenthood only ends with the grave.”
― Glittering Images
― Glittering Images
“I have a theory that all human babies are born prematurely. Given the human life span – three score years and ten – to be comparable with other animals of similar longevity, human gestation should be about two years. But the human head is so big by the age of two that no woman could deliver it. So our babies are born prematurely, in a state of utter helplessness. I”
― Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
― Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
“Though she thought of her body as a mass of frailties, she considered her soul quite as ill, and therefore important in her life.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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