Womb Quotes - Page 4

• The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.

  Abiola Abrams

  Creative, Sacred, Bombshells

  Abiola Abrams (2014). “The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love: The 11 Secrets of Feminine Power”, p.25, El Dorado Publishing

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• Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Equality, Eggs, Where You Are

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• Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

  Horace

  Fate, Gains, Granted

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• For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Evil, Giving

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Mother, Running, Abortion

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• There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.

  Joseph Campbell

  Believe, Heaven, Darkness

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.20, New World Library

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• We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.

  Terence McKenna

  Fall, Empires, World

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• Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Joy, Age

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• Did you come out of the womb a dickhead or develop that jockstrap personality on your own? (Hunter)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Personality, Hunters

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love (2011). “Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love - A B.A.D. Collection: Phantom in the Night, Whispered Lies, Silent Truth and an excerpt from Alterant”, p.807, Simon and Schuster

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• It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Criticism, Born

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Mom, Names, Guy

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• All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God. Nothing surpasses the greatness or dignity of a human person...If a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb, an indirect blow is struck also at the whole moral order.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Greatness, Blow

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• If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

  Anchee Min

  Mother, Fighting, Fighter

  Anchee Min (2012). “Red Azalea”, p.77, A&C Black

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• A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mother, Heart, Men

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.26, A&C Black

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• Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

  Daniel Handler

  Mother, Women, Numbers

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• in a woman's womb. another chance. to make the world better.

  Ellen Hopkins

  World, Another Chance, Chance

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• ...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home again...you can't go...back home to the escapes of Time and Memory. You Can't Go Home Again

  Thomas Wolfe

  Memories, Home, Dark

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• She smiles at them as they go by and continues to play, making it clear that this furnace of a place, full of planes that cannot fly, is more than it seems. It is a womb of redemption for every Unwind, and fora ll those who fought the Heartland War and lost - which was everybody.

  Neal Shusterman

  War, Play, Redemption

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if the pregnancy continues, or a rape victim, or even a teenager who made a mistake. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Father, Mistake, Teenager

  "Danse Macabre". Book by Laurell K. Hamilton, 2006.

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• All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hangover, Heart, Sleep

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• In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.

  James Joyce

  Passing Away, Flesh, Spirit

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.718, Simon and Schuster

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• And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault." "It isn't?" "No, Jack was born first and I share his genes. I can't help it if he infected me inside the womb." Briony burst out laughing. "I should have known that would be your excuse.

  Christine Feehan

  Should Have, Laughing, Would Be

  Christine Feehan (2006). “Conspiracy Game”, p.233, Penguin

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• A man becomes a Mahadev, only when he fights for good. A Mahadev is not born from his mother's womb. He is forged in the heat of battle, when he wages a war to destroy evil. Har Har Mahadev - All of us are Mahadev.

  Amish Tripathi

  Mother, War, Fighting

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