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I don't know
what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is
the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value,
are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so
astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is
bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste
that will one day include our own cheap lives.
-- Annie Dillard
1945-, American Author, Poet
The management
of fertility is one of the most important functions of
adulthood.
-- Germaine Greer
1939-, Australian Feminist
Writer
Virginity is
now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon
as possible; it is without significance. Old age is
similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and
wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the
menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition
left to women is that of fruitfulness.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
1929-, American Author
I'm hurt, hurt
and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening,
the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing
hundreds of lambs, the she-dogs, until it seems the whole
country rises to show me its tender sleeping young while I
feel two hammer-blows here instead of the mouth of my child.
-- Federico Garcia Lorca
1898-1936, Spanish Poet,
Dramatist, Musician and Artist
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