Norma McCorvey Quotes

“I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.”

“I do know this. It's the things we run from that hurt us the most." –Brad Sturdevant”

“The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.”

“I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.”

“Being human we should bear all we can.”

“May my weakness not drive me to my knees in despair, but raise me up to You, Lord.”

“No gains are ever achieved without first taking the risk of trying.”

“a good idea is only good if thereis a well-thought-out plan tomake it a reality.”

“All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)”

“Dying is beautiful- even the first time around, at the ripe old age of 20. It’s not easy most of the time, but there is real beauty to be found in knowing that your end is going to catch up with you faster than you had expected, and that you have to get all your loving and laughing and crying done as soon as you can.”