Betty Rollin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.
-- Betty Rollin

#Mother #Block #Men
Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
-- Betty Rollin

#Sex #Differences #Feminist
[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.
-- Betty Rollin

#Cancer #Car #Facts
Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.
-- Betty Rollin

#Tears #May #Disease
in my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me (1) different (from her), and (2) guilty (about what I got). Different and Guilty are not the stuff on which comradeship is built.
-- Betty Rollin

#Mother #Giving #Different
unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
-- Betty Rollin

#Divorce #Motherhood #Disappointing
[On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity.
-- Betty Rollin

#Crazy #Quality #Want
... to be afraid is in a way to be hopeful, because to be afraid means that you haven't given up. You know it doesn't help, but you keep thrashing. The monster has you pinned to the wall, but you're not ready to say, 'Oh, hell, eat me.
-- Betty Rollin

#Wall #Mean #Hopeful
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.
-- Betty Rollin

#Wish #Mothering #Notion

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.
Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.
Blaire, This was my grandmotherâ€™s. My fatherâ€™s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that sheâ€™d never loved another the way sheâ€™d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush
You're it for me, baby. Just you. You're not going to be your mother. You're special and unique and we're going to get you help. But I will be right by your side the entire time. I'll never leave you. I swear it.
I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced.
When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.
I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.
No one man is superior to the game.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

Betty Rollin famous quotes

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