"When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared……" — J. Courtney Sullivan
"When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species."
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24 Quotes by J. Courtney Sullivan
J. Courtney Sullivan has 24 quotes on this site.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being…
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There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.
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You all seem to think that you should marry someone when you feel this intense emotion, which you call love.…
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A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who…
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Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.
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For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or…
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Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women…
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for…
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker,…
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This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did…
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We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't…
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More Birth Quotes
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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