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~ By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant ~

~ Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of womanís sexuality. Every pregnant woman has body and self taken over by a chthonian force beyond her control. In the welcome pregnancy, this is a happy sacrifice. But in the unwanted one, initated by rape or misadventure, it is a horror. Such unfortunate women look directly into natureís heart of darkness. For a fetus is a benign tumor, a vampire who steals in order to live. The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way ~

Camille Paglia

~ Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Every pregnant woman has body and self taken over by a chthonian force beyond her control. In the welcome pregnancy, this is a happy sacrifice. But in the unwanted one, initiated by rape or misadventure, it is a horror. Such unfortunate women look directly into nature's heart of Darkness. For a fetus is a benign tumor, a vampire who steals in order to live. The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way. ~

Camille Paglia

~ Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy sense of duty. Mundane, because they were nothing unique on the suburban streets; ethereal because their attention was ever somewhere else. Whatever you said was trivial. And they had that preciousness which they imposed wherever they went, compelling attention, constantly reminding you that they carried the future inside, its contours already drawn, but veiled, private, an inner secret. ~

Ruth Morgan

~ Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone ~

Egyptian Proverb

~ Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone ~

Egyptian Proverb

~ Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. ~

Francesca M. Cancian

~ The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands. ~

Charleszetta Waddles

~ Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women. ~

Richard Benner

~ Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go. ~

H. Rider Haggard

~ No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree. ~

W. C. Fields

~ Words are women, deeds are men ~

George Herbert

~ I am serving the Lord and helping women save babies. ~

Norma McCorvey

~ Life would be so much easier if we didn't have to deal with men and women who make promises they have no intention of keeping. ~

Les Parrott

~ The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women ~

Learned Hand

~ The test of civilization is its estimate of women. ~

George William Curtis

~ A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility ~

Simone de Beauvoir

~ All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. ~

Mignon McLaughlin

~ Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. ~

Henri Frederic Amiel

~ Silence gives the proper grace to women ~

Sophocles

~ Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. ~

Robert A. Heinlein

~ I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me. ~

Jimmy Carter

~ Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. ~

Lois Wyse

~ Most women are one man away from welfare. ~

Gloria Steinem

~ If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must allow our populace a communion with nature in areas of more or less wilderness condition. ~

Arthur Carhart†

~ Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out hold, enough You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity. ~

John Keats

~ I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together. ~

Robert Burton

~ God knows what you have unleashed on the unsuspecting South. It will be wine, women, and song all the way with Ringo when he gets the taste for it. ~

Norm

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