Birth

(195 votes)   It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

James Augustine
British Writer

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(160 votes)   It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(137 votes)   The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.

Germaine Greer
1939-, Australian Feminist Writer

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(107 votes)   If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an unwanted child or an oversize family is wrong -- not ethically wrong, not against the rules, but morally wrong, all wrong, wrong like a thalidomide birth, wrong like taking a wrong step that will break your neck -- if we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we'll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.

Ursula K. Le Guin
1929-, American Author

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(79 votes)   I came to the place of my birth and cried, ''The friends of my youth, where are they?'' And echo answered, ''Where are they?''

Arabian Proverbs
Sayings of Arabian Origin

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(62 votes)   Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

Groucho Marx
1895-1977, American Comic Actor

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(52 votes)   Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

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(51 votes)   Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

Plutarch
46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer

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(45 votes)   The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution -- this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Margaret Oliphant
1828-1897, British Novelist, Historian

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(40 votes)   My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(39 votes)   Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psalms 51:5]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(37 votes)   Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund.

Carol Evertt

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(35 votes)   Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

Pliny The Elder
c.23-79, Roman Neophatonist

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(31 votes)   Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.

Doug Horton

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(28 votes)   And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Anne Ridler
1912-, British Poet

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