Birth Quote by Harper Lee

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

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

— Antonia Fraser

“supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were…

— Jane Austen

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

— Kurt Vonnegut

If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.

— John Updike

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“she was a congenitally ungraceful girl with a mortifying inaptitude for all accomplishments.”

— Debbie Cowens

There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place

— Denis Johnson

We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her…

— Sameerah Shareef

“She was no longer a child, to be cowed or forced into submission, but a grown woman with a definite purpose and an invincible…

— Kamala Markandaya

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her…

— Jane Austen

Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.

— Jenny Offill