"Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns."

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Source : Peggy Orenstein (2010). “Waiting for Daisy: The True Story of One Couple's Quest to Have a Baby”, p.8, A&C Black

Peggy Orenstein

#Children Quotes #Careers Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Only do what your heart tells you.”
“Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost. Idleness will be shut out at every avenue, and with her that numerous body of vices that make up her train.”
“I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.”
“I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.”

Source : Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. October 3, 2013.
“We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true.”

Source : Carroll Eugene Simcox (1985). “Prayer: The Divine Dialog”, Intervarsity Pr
“In a friend you find a second self.”
“I don't complain about playing time. My job is to play so well the coach can't sit me.”
“A library is a feast to which we are all invited.”

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