Mccorvey Roe Quotes & Sayings

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. — Elizabeth Drew

Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women. — Norma McCorvey

There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me. — Ira Gershwin

When a human life is open to all that humanity can be, humanity and divinity flow together as one. It was and is a radical insight, and one the consciousness of the mystic is destined to understand. — John Shelby Spong

I've never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision; a complex of emotions; raw experience. The effort of memorable art is to evoke in the reader or spectator emotions appropriate to that effort. — Joyce Carol Oates

Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real. — Mason Cooley

I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own. — Woody Allen

When an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind or sees two targets - He is out of his mind! His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting- And the need to win drains him of power. — Zhuangzi

Hence, the less government we have, the better,
the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest. — Norma McCorvey

Homosexuality, to the limited extent it was discussed in our church, was little more than a political football, a quick test of orthodoxy. — Matthew Vines

I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it. — Norma McCorvey

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession. — Clayton Christensen

A news event in 1995 shocked both sides in the culture war controversy. Norma Leah McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" in the famous Supreme Court case of 1973, converted to Christ, got baptized, and joined the pro-life campaign. — Philip Yancey

You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour. — Keith Rabois

This plant represents what's happening inside of you. The world, like the soil, is cold and dark - layered with a history of destruction and death. You were planted in this world to rise above it. Do you not see? The very existence of this darkness gives you the opportunity to become a light to the world. — Seth Adam Smith

Timeless awareness occurs to very few in this world, to step beyond the circle of fear. The body has created a magnificent arena of fear. We have developed ways of seeing life that exclude us from seeing life. — Frederick Lenz

War itself is the enemy of the human race. — Howard Zinn

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change — George Bernard Shaw