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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? —REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
She wondered if the only way any of us can find what we stand for is by first locating what we stand against.
We are all drowning slowly in the tide of our opinions, oblivious that we are taking on water every time we open our mouths.
If we are meant to only have children who never encounter difficulty in life, then no one should be born.
She wondered what it felt like to have an act of violence committed because someone loved you too much, instead of too little.
It seemed to Wren that having a mother had a lot less to do with a few sweaty hours of labor and delivery and a lot more to do with whose face you always looked for in a crowd.
Perhaps the question wasn’t When does a fetus become a person? but When does a woman stop being one?
But it wasn’t having sex that made you a woman. It was having to make decisions, sometimes terrible ones.
