Jane Roe Quotes

#1. Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Judith Butler

#2. No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

Harold Laski

#3. I used the name Jane Roe because I didn't want my personal name to be involved in it.

Norma McCorvey

#4. Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#5. It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

Bram Stoker

#6. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong. A house built on the sand is in fair weather just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is no strain upon it.

Henry Ward Beecher

#7. The familiar was far away, while the bizarre was close at hand.

Ted Chiang

#8. A news event in 1995 shocked both sides in the culture war controversy. Norma Leah McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" in the famous Supreme Court case of 1973, converted to Christ, got baptized, and joined the pro-life campaign.

Philip Yancey

#9. What's your favorite part of me?

Jaejoong

#10. We chip away as best we can at the mysterious block of marble our lives are made of- in vain; the black vein of destiny always reappears.

Victor Hugo

#11. He wanted to know things, not reveal them.

Terry Goodkind

#12. [Jane] Roe has made it not only possible, but has found it constitutional to kill a whole class of people, simply because of their genetic make-up.

Sam Brownback

#13. Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Bette Davis

#14. Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.

Steven Erikson

#15. No matter how attractive a person's potential may be, you have to date their reality.

Mandy Hale

#16. I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

Norma McCorvey

#17. Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

Edmund Burke