Fine print Quote by Jenny Offill

“your mother. Your birth certificate grants me the right to meddle in your life.” She”

— Kate Perry

“I’m your mother. Your birth certificate grants me the right to meddle in your life.” She”

— Kate Perry

“Now she understood how you can copyedit your own life in order to delete the hurtful truth.”

— Elaine Hussey

“Somehow I believed it was my obligation to try to do the right thing by her because she had given birth to me.”

— D.G. Kaye

“She was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family, home..”

— Khaled Hosseini

“Now, even as her family grieved, she was giving birth again.”

— Mark Oristano

“She had already rehearsed me several times on what I should do and say in case I survived and she did not. I had…

— Matthew A. Rozell

“They claimed she had only a female child, so she wasn’t entitled to their late brother’s property.”

— Unoma Nwankwor

“she’d been bequeathed a house by a relative her mother had claimed didn’t exist.”

— Darcy Coates

“Supposedly she’d died, but here she was again–somewhat changed, but you couldn’t kill her. Not when the truest part of her hadn’t even been…

— Denis Johnson

“When, she wonders, did she stop being a child? The law says it was when she turned eighteen, but the law doesn't know her.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Each woman must realize that she is the final guardian of her unborn child.”

— Susan McCutcheon