Quotes About Choice

I made a choice in life and got pregnant and had a child, and I want to put my child first.

Some women work while they are pregnant, but not me. That was a choice I had made. That's when I took a break. Men can work at whatever stage they are; whether they turn daddy, they still have their own thing. But women can't afford that because by being mothers, they have to be there for their kids.

I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.

At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.

When I was pregnant, we decided that if it's a girl, we would name her Tara and if it's a boy it would be Vir.

Fulham wanted me when I was 16. They were in the Premier League at the time with Mark Hughes, and I was close to going.

I turned down Premier League jobs; I didn't think they were right.

Sometimes you pay a premium to get what you want.

I feel that a world in which you only see what you want to see is incomplete. And as a game creator, I am only here to prepare a game that will expand the breadth of your thinking, and leave the decision between good and evil up to the players.

I generally don't climb something if it makes me feel fear. The beauty of soloing is that there's no pressure - no one's telling me to do it. So if something seems scary, I don't have any obligation to do it. I can prepare further or just walk away entirely.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.

I just like being me, and whether the people love me or hate me, that's their own prerogative.

We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.

It is everyone's prerogative to retire. But it's like giving up on life as far as I'm concerned.

The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.

Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

We all have points in our lives where two roads present themselves and we have to make a decision very fast. We don't know how it will impact our lives, but it usually does.

When the opportunity presented itself, I had never been bar mitzvahed. I wasn't going to pass it up.

Donald Trump presented for the French an infinitely less dangerous program than that of Hillary Clinton.

Doors that presented themselves before, which I couldn't walk through, are at least there. And there are a few keyholes I can pick.