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Womb Quotes

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Apr 30, 2012

Fewer women would have abortions if wombs had windows.

"Aborting America". Book by Bernard Nathanson and Richard Ostling, 1979.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.268, Knopf

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.149, Princeton University Press

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.

William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.268, Barron's Educational Series

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.160

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

George Bernard Shaw (2004). “John Bull's Other Island”, p.164, 1st World Publishing

Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.

Daniel Defoe (1705). “A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of The True-born Englishman: Some Whereof Never Before Printed. Corrected and Enlarged by the Author”, p.166

I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

"MacMaster sings in praise of the fiddle 'In My Hands'" by Serena Yang, www.cnn.com. November 8, 1999.

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

Jack London (2009). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories”, p.11, Oxford Paperbacks