Quotes About Choice

When posing for a photograph, spinsters should avoid looking desperate or deprived. A serene smile will show that your circumstances are by choice and not for lack of beauty or character. -Miss Gertrude Hasslebrink, 1878

Bessie- A man picking out a wife is like asking a cow to pick out a farmer.

Which was the braver, the one who left, or the one who stayed?

I've got selfish in my old age. I live as I like.

He wants only the simple things: a chair, someone to pull off his shoes, someone to watch him while he talks, with admiration and fear, gratitude if possible, someone in whom to plunge himself for rest and renewal. These things can best be had by marrying a woman who has been condemned to death by other men for wishing to be beautiful. There is a wide choice.

She must transform his hands so they will be willing to twist the rope around throats that have been singled out as hers was, throats other than hers. She must marry the hangman or no one, but that is not so bad. Who else is there to marry?

In order to avoid her death, her particular death, with wrung neck and swollen tongue, she must marry the hangman.

She finally said: 'I want to provide you with the opportunity to be free to make a choice of belonging with someone, but never to someone else'.

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

you'll learn the critical difference between the paralyzing restrictions of choice and the freeing concept of focus.

I tatuaggi sono segni nuovi scelti da te. Metti qualcosa tra la tua pelle e il destino. Un sorso di coraggio.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers — and before it can be his, it is hers alone. She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

Every woman should be "absolute mistress of her own body.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which way to go...