Women

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."

"Of all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally, She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley."

"Those girls who give themselves to the man they love before marriage really succeed in cheating themselves. I know and understand how strong the temptation is, but also I know something else: there is nothing else more beautiful and wonderful than sexual love between marriage partners — when that love is entered into and blessed by God. Why would anyone want to accept anything less?"

"Seven summers old Lovely Lyca told, She had wanderd long Hearing wild birds song."

"The sort of girl I like to see Smiles down from her great height at me. She stands in strong, athletic pose And wrinkles her retroussé nose. Is it distaste that makes her frown, So furious and freckled, down On an unhealthy worm like me? Or am I what she likes to see?"

"Pam, I adore you, Pam, you great big mountainous sports girl, Whizzing them over the net, full of the strength of five: That old Malvernian brother, you zephyr and khaki shorts girl, Although he's playing for Woking, Can't stand up To your wonderful backhand drive."

"A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day."

"She was not really bad at heart, But only rather rude and wild: She was an aggravating child."

"A Trick that everyone abhors In Little Girls is slamming Doors."

"I think that if you had two desert islands, and you put girl babies on one island and boy babies on another island, and they were somehow able to survive with no help from adult society, eventually the girls would cooperate in collecting pieces of driftwood and using them to build shelters, whereas the boys would pretend that driftwood pieces were guns."

"I have male friends whose daughters are approaching puberty at speeds upwards of 700 miles per hour, and when you say the word "dating," my friends get a look in their eyes that makes Charles Manson look like Captain Kangaroo."

"Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions."

"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."

"Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; Girls aren't like that."

"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it."

"I guess I never realized I would find [performing abortions] as unpleasant as I do. I really don't enjoy it at all. It's not a rewarding thing to do ... [patients] look at you as an evil person who is deliberately putting them through a painful procedure ... it's their whole attitude that bothers me. I feel like a simple thank you is in order, instead of 'Why are you doing this to me?'"

"A murder before birth."

"When we look to the unborn child, the real issue is not when life begins, but when love begins."

"Almost all women in this nation now receive ultrasounds during the course of their pregnancy and you know, a number of things can be picked up on those ultrasounds, one of which is hydrocephalus. And almost uniformly, when there is an indication of hydrocephalus a recommendation for termination is made. ... A significant number of those patients who decide not to go the abortion route, it turns out, end up with children who are normal, who never required a shunt, never required anything, and yet had come to see me for a recommendation for abortion."

"Since the first century, the Church has addressed the moral evil of abortion and the killing of a defenseless baby in the womb. People who are casual about the sin of abortion and who choose to view it as a political issue rather than the serious moral issue that it is are guilty of violating the Fifth Commandment."

"Catholics and other Christians are against abortions and they're against homosexuals. Well who has less abortions than homosexuals? Leave these fucking people alone for Christ's sake! Here is an entire class of people guaranteed never to have an abortion! And the Catholics and the Christians are just tossing them aside... You'd think they'd make natural allies."

"Here's another question I have. How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelet? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen; that we passed chickens in goodness? Name six ways we're better than chickens... See, nobody can do it! You know why? 'Cause chickens are decent people. You don't see chickens hanging around in drug gangs, do you? No. You don't see a chicken strapping some guy to a chair and hooking up his nuts to a car battery, do you? When's the last chicken you heard about came home from work and beat the shit out of his hen, huh? Doesn't happen... 'cause chickens are decent people."

"Michael Corleone: I know you blame me for losing the baby. Yes, I know what that meant to you. I'll make it up to you, Kay. I swear I'll make it up to you. I'm gonna change. I'll change. I've learned that I have the strength to change. And you'll forget about this miscarriage. And we'll have another child. And we'll go on, you and I. We'll go on."

"It's a nasty, dirty, yucky thing and I always come home angry... I've become very good at it. I've become one hell of an abortionist. But it's not something I tell my kids about... Have you ever seen one? ... I don't care what anyone say, it is not a tonsillectomy, not just any old medical procedure. It's terminating a potential human life."

"Women... sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affection... either destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity."

"George W. Bush, go to hell! And while you're at it, we want you to take Ashcroft with you. And don't forget Rumsfeld. And please carry along Condi Rice... I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion."

"Should there be competing articles, so that you would have the Catholic article on abortion, the evangelical Christian version, and the Planned Parenthood version"

"In some cases abortion is justified."

"Even if you are pro-choice, no one likes to see a dead fetus."

"Partus antequam edatur, mulieris portio vel viscerum est."

"It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."

"...the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing - direct murder by the mother herself... because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."

"About the terminating of pregnancy, I want your opinion. The father was syphilitic, the mother tuberculous. Of the four children born, the first was blind, the second died, the third was deaf and dumb, the fourth was also tuberculous. What would you have done?" "I would have terminated the pregnancy." "Then you would have murdered Beethoven."

"Abortion, it can be said, is contraception practised late. So the ethical rules that support contraception also support the abortion of a non-viable fetus, that is one not yet capable of living indefinitely outside the mother's body. Abortion is always sad, and depressing for the aborting woman. It negates her nature, and for that we should have pity. Yet it is her choice."

"For today, the women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows."

"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State."

"When a man steals to satisfy hunger, we may safely conclude that there is something wrong in society. So when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is an evidence that either by education or circumstances she has been greatly wronged."

"I have the utmost respect for life; I appreciate that life starts early in the womb, but I also believe that I am ending it for good reasons."

"Abortion does not seem the kind of moral issue which is just 'solved' once and for all; it can only be coped with."

"When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit."

"Since a man can't make one He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one."

"The assumption that disabled children must not be born is apparently so powerful that many babies who would have been completely healthy are being aborted as well."

"Still I think there's too much fuss about abortion. This is done by men. Men who don't give a fuck about their own kids, those who already have arms and legs. And go to grade one. They should be bought a backpack or trainers and taught drawing. [...] They've got neither dough nor time for their own kids, but about yours and mine whose arms still haven’t grown... Okay. Had I given them a chance, they would've had arms and legs. You get it. Where was I? Those masters don't even know they have kids, but they know everything about abortions. They write science papers, give lectures, hand flyers, present diapositives, show slow motion small bodies being crunched. Jerks have eyes full of love for late and future abortions. They want to unite abortions of the world. Raise them to their feet! In your dreams!"

"[A] physician of wealth and high standing had seduced a girl and then induced her to commit abortion—I rather lost my temper, and wrote to the individuals who had asked for the pardon, saying that I extremely regretted that it was not in my power to increase the sentence."

"Abortion, it's beautiful, it's beautiful abortion is legal. I love going to an abortion rally to pick up women, 'cause you know they are fucking... When a woman gets pregnant, it's a choice between the woman and her girlfriends. One girlfriend goes, 'Child, you should have that baby — that man got some good hair.' And the other girlfriend says, 'Child, why we even talking about this — ain't we supposed to go to Cancun next week? Get rid of that baby!' [That] is how life is decided in America."

"Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language -- this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable... In a society where women entered sexual intercourse willingly, where adequate contraception was a genuine social priority, there would be no 'abortion issue'... Abortion is violence... It is the offspring, and will continue to be the accuser of a more pervasive and prevalent violence, the violence of rapism."

"I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born."

"As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the 'quality of life' ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future."

"Regrettably, we live at a time when some persons do not value all human life. They want to pick and choose which individuals have value."

"The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being."