Life Quote by Barbara Cutrera

“The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“...by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family!”

— Jane Austen

“What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence and to…

— Debbie McGowan

“...women giving birth seemed very often to lose any sense of fear or misgiving...exhibiting an absorption that amounted to indifference-simply because they had no…

— Diana Gabaldon

“At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she…

— Lydia Davis

“All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but history teaches…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The judge took into account “the profound despair of a woman unable to give life…” As if a man couldn’t be as deeply affected…

— Zidrou

“Yes, her childlessness was a fugue in itself, a flight- this was the habitual theme she was trying now to resist- a flight from…

— Ian McEwan

“Her failure to demand her needs, losing all of her years, sacrificing herself on the altar of motherhood to a son who saved himself…

— Cherise Wolas

“The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“[...] he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Because our birth mothers made a choice for us that dramatically changed the course of our lives and over which we had no control,…

— Sherrie Eldridge