[On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality… — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
[On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get,… — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she… — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment… — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others. — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
... to be afraid is in a way to be hopeful, because to be afraid means that you haven't given up. You know it… — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
“Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object, the difference is that is not all she… — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
“Women have childbearing equipment. To choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man… — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce. — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender. — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
in my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me (1) different (from her),… — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney. — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
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