Norma McCorvey Quotes

Everybody's out to get something from somebody. 'Gold diggers' doesn't just mean money, it can mean time, it can mean feelings. It can mean anything when you're taking and not giving. When people don't know how to reciprocate.

If you cash in on people, then they aren't your friends.

People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.

I did abuse the game a bit because I didn't give it the respect sometimes.

Approaching people looking for something in return isn't a relationship, it's a transaction.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

A bad boyfriend is someone you give everything to - you live with him, cook for him, sleep with him - thinking he is going to marry you and then he doesn't. When you are giving your all to a job and not getting credit, your job is a bad boyfriend.

I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.

So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

Basically, nice guys can finish last.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

Promise everything to anyone, unless clear obligation prevents it. Only live up to those promises which are of advantage to you.

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.

Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.

I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.

I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.

If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what they've accomplished. What you want to want to know is how they explain them.

It's all about what they can get out of me.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.

In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.