Barbara Seaman quotes

“According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices are given to women, but not to men- just for birth control. I've reached the conclusion that to many doctors BEING A WOMAN IS A DISEASE”
-- Barbara Seaman

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“Condoms should be marked in 3 sizes: jumbo, colossal and super colossal, so that men do not have to go in and ask for the small.”
-- Barbara Seaman

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“Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising group.”
-- Barbara Seaman

Source : "A Dozen Who Have Risen to Prominence". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. June 22, 1997.

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“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”

“The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.”

Source : "The Case for Contraception" by Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”

“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”

“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”

“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. My intent wasn't to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession, we must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.”

“That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.”

“The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.”

Source : "Alastair Campbell" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.