Miscarriage Quotes

• If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Boys, Wade, Legs

  Elizabeth Edwards (2010). “Resilience: The New Afterword”, p.80, Crown Archetype

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• How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have left upon our hearts

  Dorothy Ferguson

  Heart, Our World, Bereavement

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• It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Happy Life, Missing, Missing It

  "Two mothers, two lost babies" by Rachel Stockley, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2009.

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• A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Love, Children, People

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, September 1990.

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• When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, their isn't a word to describe them. This month recognizes the loss so many parents experience across the United States and around the world. It is also meant to inform and provide resources for parents who have lost children due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, stillbirths, birth defects, SIDS, and other causes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Pregnancy, Loss

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• Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

  Samuel Johnson

  Arrogance, Despair, Weakness

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The rambler”, p.263

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• In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.

  Thomas Beecham

  Pregnancy, Musical, Movement

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• I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only from the various essays of experimental industry, and the vague excursions of mind set upon discovery, that any advancement of knowledge can be expected; and though many must be disappointed in their labours, yet they are not to be charged with having spent their time in vain; their example contributed to inspire emulation, and their miscarriage taught others the way to success.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Necessary Use, Discovery

  Samuel Johnson (1889). “Select Essays”

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• My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

  Jack Kemp

  Children, Wife, Sanctity

  "In His Own Words: Jack Kemp And The Issues", www.nytimes.com. August 11, 1996.

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• I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sound, Apathy, Littles

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 297 (1755)

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• Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since man cannot be sovereign without the money power, there can not be democracy under the political money system.

  E.C. Riegel

  Frustration, Power, Men

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• It's [a miscarriage] all very thief-in-the-night. No one really knows what to say. You go into the emergency room, you think you're going to be a mum and you walk out empty. It's all neat and tidy, there's this potential being in your life and you're empty - all cleaned up and put back together, but completely shattered.

  Tori Amos

  Night, Thinking, Neat And Tidy

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• I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.

  Robert Munsch

  Inspiring, Baby, Love You

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• Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Success, Loss

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• I hope you have a miscarriage on a Walmart floor and have the baby's room already decorated.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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• To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.

  George Washington

  Doubt, Letters, Acknowledge

  George Washington (1860). “Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations”, p.77

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• Certainly miscarriage is not invariably related to low thyroid function. There are many other possible causes. Yet soon after thyroid therapy first became available, it was found that patients with a history of miscarriages often had a history compatible with thyroid deficiency and that full-term pregnancies might follow treatment with thyroid.

  Broda Otto Barnes

  Pregnancy, Pms, Might

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• I’d had three great pregnancies. I thought morning sickness was the end of the world, and it’s not until something pretty major happens that you’re like, oh my gosh those were all a piece of cake. I had a pretty large bleed. I thought I was having a miscarriage.

  Tori Spelling

  Morning, Pregnancy, Cake

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• Basically, "Making a Murderer" chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice. Steven Avery is convicted and sentenced to a very, very long prison sentence for the assault on a woman. And it comes to light through DNA evidence that he was not the assailant.

  Errol Morris

  Light, Dna, Long

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Healing, Talking, Flash

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar”, p.21, Vintage

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• Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next door is all the American male could wish for: unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.

  Vivian Gornick

  Love, Girl, Doors

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• Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.

  Pierre Bayle

  Stars, Lying, Atheism

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• The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Integrity, Character

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.

  Samuel Johnson

  Envy, Excellence, Important

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”, p.174

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• The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with - - and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Wind, Opposites

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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