Dear Irene,
I was alerted to the pending release of your book, Impossible Motherhood, by a friend and when I read the summary, I thought: “Wow. That’s intense.”
I read in another article that you feared your “self-described ‘abortion addiction’ will be misunderstood” and that you only scheduled “closed-door interviews and will [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Books’
Open Letter to Irene Vilar, “Abortion Addict”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abortion, Abortion Addict, Aspen Baker, Books, Challenge, Counseling, Culture War, Exhale, Irene Vilar, NonJudgment, Pro-Voice on October 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Abortion in Books: Night Train to Lisbon
Posted in I did, tagged Abortion, Books on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier.
Translated from the German by Barbara Harshav
Pg. 9
“Sarah Winter, who had stood outside the door of his flat at two in the morning because she didn’t know what to do with her pregnancy. He had made her tea and listened, nothing else. ‘I’m so glad I followed [...]
Abortion in Books: Echoes
Posted in I did, tagged Abortion, Books, Oakland, Stigma on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Echoes
A novel by Maeve Binchy, author of Whitehorn Woods.
Purchased at Walden Pond in Oakland.
Page 161:
“Things will change of course, but in their own time. You can’t rush people and expect them to go at your pace. In terms of absolutes you might be wise to hold off until the growth of acceptance is sufficient…until the [...]
Abortion In Books: Christine Falls
Posted in I did, tagged Abortion, Books on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Christine Falls
A Novel by Benjamin Black, pen name for John Banville, also wrote The Sea.
Page 174:
“Oh, all the brassers know Dolly Moran,” he said. Quirke nodded. Brassers were whores, he assumed, but how? Brass nails, rhyming with tails, or was it something to do with screw? Barney’s slang seem all of his own making. “She [...]
