Nonmothers Quotes & Sayings

I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off. — Tawakkol Karman

Lovers may come and go,
there was the memory of blood,
the low call. — Hilda Doolittle

God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness. — Elisabeth Elliot

You need dresses!" "No, you need me to need dresses! — Rebecca Donovan

My whole image is a short step to the right of bondage porn. It's like I was begging you to do this to me before we even met, isn't it? Like I was just waiting for someone to belong to. I'm everything you think I am. I want everything you think I do. Explore me. — Thursday Euclid

You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation. — Zach Braff

Death is not a memory you can fake. — Jessica Brody

Now is rather a questionable one. And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, — Arthur Conan Doyle

A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution. — Pankaj Mishra

But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish" The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves
rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don't "finish things" properly and have children. — Caitlin Moran