Nicki Minaj Quotes

The '80s were a difficult period for me.

If a woman plans to terminate her pregnancy, she commonly refers to the life within her as the 'fetus'. But if she intends to deliver and love and care for the little child, she affectionately calls him 'my baby'.

We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.

Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

A woman should be able to choose to have an abortion up to a certain point in pregnancy.

I am sure that adolescents find it just as confusing and difficult to understand themselves as their elders find them difficult to understand.

Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it is not a good idea to bring them into the world.

I was sort of a miserable teenager.

I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.

I have been through a lot in my life, my parents divorced when I was 16, and it was a very difficult time.

When I think about my teenage years, when my parents broke up, and feeling alone and being out of control and having to survive... And then other times when you've had to find your own way... that's always been a dominant theme in what I've done.

The night I won my first Late Model race was the night my mom moved everything out of the house... There was a lot of situations like that.

Many feel sorry for a person like David Platt. He was abandoned by his father, his mother wanted to abort him and his stepdad wanted him dead.

'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

When anti-choice men talk about abortion, you get the feeling they really have no idea what they're talking about - they haven't done even the slightest bit of research about how hard the choice really is and how painful the experience really is.

I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.

I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.

I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.