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“At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.”
Source : "Ending the Silence That Fuels Abortion Stigma" by Cecile Richards, www.elle.com. October 16, 2014. 
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“Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.”
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“But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.”
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“(After getting out of another treatment center) I came home one Sunday morning. I sat on the edge of my bed. I never grew up going to church. I never read a Bible. I wasn't anti-God. I just never thought about God. I just lived for myself and thought about myself...I was married by this point. I'd been married for two years. So, here I am sitting on the edge of my bed, nine o'clock Sunday morning. I have a son who's not quite two yet and I just broke down crying because I had been out all weekend doing cocaine.”
Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
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“In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.”
Source : Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”
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“If I could have any job I would be a cat... but that's not something I'm supposed to talk about in public.”
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“I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.”
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“Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.”
Source : Philip Elliot Slater (1991). “A Dream Deferred: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, Beacon Pr
