"When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility."

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Source : Ayelet Waldman (2013). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.113, Hachette UK

Ayelet Waldman

#Selfish Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Reality Quotes

“You get a lot of fame, but haven't created anything musically.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.”

Source : Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”
“I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.”

Source : Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2009). “Dragons of the Hourglass Mage: Lost Chronicles, Volume Three”, p.185, Wizards of the Coast
“Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!”
“All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.”
“Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.”
“Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.”
“It's much more fun as an actor, as well. If everything is on the page and you're spoon-feeding an audience you feel like your job is merely to say the words clearly because the structure of the story will take care of itself.”

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