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Kristin Luker

"A group of women who valued motherhood, but valued it on their own timetable, began to make a new claim, one that had never surfaced in the abortion debate before this, that abortion was a woman's right. Most significantly, they argued that this right to abortion was essential to their right to equality -- the right to be treated as individuals rather than as potential mothers."

Source : Kristin Luker (1985). “Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood”, p.92, Univ of California Press

Kristin Luker

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“I actually don't prepare for onscreen nudity. I really believe that you have to be comfortable with your own body and unless the role is directed to a certain physicality and you're playing a sports person, then obviously you've got to train for it, but I just try and do things that make me happy and comfortable in my own skin, so I've gotten into yoga quite a lot.”
“We do not go to Holy Communion because we are good; we go to become good.”
“One tip is to try and give your hair some time to relax. Don't over wash or over dry it.”
“I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.”
“Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.”
“Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could not be used to seed new coffee plants; foreigners were excluded from coffee-producing areas. First to break the Arab monopoly were the Dutch, who displaced the Portuguese as the dominant European nation in the East Indies during the seventeenth century, gaining control of the spice trade in the process and briefly becoming the world's leading commercial power.”
“I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.”

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