Looking for Jane Quotes

“It all comes down to having the right to make the choice. Every child a wanted child, every mother a willing mother.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“Do not mistake your humanity for weakness. It is, unfortunately, a common misconception.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“women helping women, allowing us to be at the steering wheel of our own lives for once, right?”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“people regret the things they didn’t do far more than the mistakes they”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“It’s illegal, full stop, so there will always be a risk, I grant you. But if more women are standing up to the illegality, fighting against it… why not join them? Maybe there is safety in numbers, in a way. You told me they couldn’t arrest you all at the Hill protest. Not enough handcuffs, right?”

Evelyn takes another long draft from her glass, eyeing her irritatingly sensible husband. She nods again. “Not enough handcuffs.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“people regret the things they didn’t do far more than the mistakes they actually made. It’s inaction that causes you to lie awake into the early hours of the morning, second-guessing your own judgment. It’s the what-ifs and should-haves that crouch down deep in that buried chamber of your soul. They latch on tighter; their teeth are sharper.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“Do not mistake your humanity for weakness. It is, unfortunately, a common misconception”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“I’m writing this on the hot and sunny afternoon of June 25, 2022, the day after women and pregnant people in America were reduced to something less than human. Despicably, you were also reduced to something less than assault rifles. There are few words adequate enough to describe the dehumanization that has occurred for at least half of the American population.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“there’s nowhere left to run.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“she’s positive she has never in her life felt this utterly, profoundly alone.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“When you're young, you get to look at time through the reduction end of the telescope. The wrong end, the generous end that makes everything appear so far away, that gives the impression that there are light-years of space between you and those magically distant objects. And then, without warning, time turns it around on you, and suddenly you're looking through the correct end, the end you were always supposed to be looking through, if you were paying attention. The end where everything is magnified and perilously close. The end that zooms in without mercy and forces you to see the detail you should have been focusing on all along.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“Because the abortion rights activists didn’t win this fight just for themselves. This fight and this victory was for their daughters, and their daughters’ daughters. To make sure a horrible cycle was broken, and the next generation would be better off than their own. To leave these women a world where no one can tell them that they don’t own their own bodies.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“It all comes down to having the right to make the choice.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“Yes, but all of motherhood is just chronic low-level fear at the best of times, dear.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“You’re a kind soul, Doc,” he says. “You make other folks’ lives easier just by bein’ you. You’ve got a reservation about ya, though. You were a hard nut for me to crack, kid. You… you risk a lot, doin’ what ya do, and maybe it’s made ya a bit tough.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“Watch your mouth, sweetheart.” “Watch your sexism, asshole.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“You don’t “meet for tea” to reunite with your long-lost daughter.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“There’s something about a snowy weekend that feels like a freebie; like the earth is saying, Slow down, enjoy yourself, there’s nowhere to go anyway.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“a brother in Toronto. He’s a doctor, too, his wife”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“Just a few more months, and her baby would have been legitimate, even if Leo had still died. If they had only been married, she would have been pitied as a mourning pregnant widow,”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“There are no dreams here, there is no light. The darkness will linger. For some, only months. For others, years. And others still will never see the light again. These girls are fallen. And they will all pay for their redemption.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“At no point did anyone ever ask Evelyn what she wanted. This baby is growing inside her, but she has no say in its fate.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“that she wasn’t even aware she was pregnant when Leo had the heart attack.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“Anne, asleep over by the window, resorted to selling her own body out of financial desperation when her husband abandoned her and deserted to British Columbia with his secretary.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“Fifteen-year-old Louise in the bed across from Evelyn became pregnant by her brother’s friend, who was seven years her senior and full of pretty promises”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“If I have learned anything from this, it is not to keep secrets. They fester like wounds, and take even longer to heal once the damage sets in. It’s permanent, and crippling, and I want more for you than that.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“Looking for Jane is about motherhood.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“There is nothing like clearing out your dead mother’s house to make you wonder whether you ever knew her at all.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“right to make the choice.”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane

“Abortion Caravan will”
― Heather Marshall, Looking for Jane