Kristin Luker quotes

“Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in their belief that their own views on abortion are the more correct, the more moral, and more reasonable. When added to this is the fact that should 'the other side' win, one group of women will see the very real devaluation of their lives and life resources, it is not surprising that the abortion debate has generated so much heat and so little light.”
-- Kristin Luker

Source : Kristin Luker (1985). “Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood”, p.215, Univ of California Press

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“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.”
-- Kristin Luker

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

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“Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.”

“Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.”

Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

“I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.”

Source : "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.

“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”

“Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.”

Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

“If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.”

“Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.”

“I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.”

“It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.”

“We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.”