[On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity.
... to be afraid is in a way to be hopeful, because to be afraid means that you haven't given up. You know it doesn't help, but you keep thrashing. T… - Betty Rollin
... to be afraid is in a way to be hopeful, because to be afraid means that you haven't given up. You know it doesn't help, but you keep thrashing. T…
- Betty Rollin
unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce. - Betty Rollin
unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney. - Betty Rollin
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.
[On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mew… - Betty Rollin
[On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mew…
Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment… - Betty Rollin
Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment…
Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be. - Betty Rollin
Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender. - Betty Rollin
[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.
Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others. - Betty Rollin
Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.
in my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me (1) different (from her… - Betty Rollin
in my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me (1) different (from her…
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