4 Quotes by Betty Rollin


  • Author Betty Rollin
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    Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

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  • Author Betty Rollin
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    Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.

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  • Author Betty Rollin
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    The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.

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