"Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him."

-- Ayelet Waldman

#Mother Quotes #Baby Quotes #Labels Quotes

“No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.”
“When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises”
“Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.”
“History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy”
“Politics is applied biology.”

Source : "Ernst Haeckel: the art of evolution - in pictures" by Rainer Willmann, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2017.
“Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.”
“If I showed you where I live, you would think that I was hiding”

Source : Song: Real Estates, Album: Pilot Talk II, 2010
“Some of us find our way with a single light to guide us; others lose themselves even when the star field is as sharp as a neon ceiling. Ethics may not be situational, but feelings are. We learn to adjust, and, over time, the stars we use to guide ourselves come to reside within rather than without.”

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