Quote

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

Edward Abbey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Woman
Maternity
Form
Compulsory
States
Abolition
Right
Amounts
Abortion
Amount
Wants
State
Rape

More quotes by Edward Abbey

Image
Great art is never perfect perfect art is never great.
Edward Abbey
Image
Every moment is precious. And precarious.
Edward Abbey
Image
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Edward Abbey
Image
The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
Edward Abbey
Image
It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
Edward Abbey
Image
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
Edward Abbey
Image
Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
Edward Abbey
Image
Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.
Edward Abbey
Image
Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
Edward Abbey
Image
Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
Edward Abbey
Image
The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
Edward Abbey
Image
I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
Edward Abbey
Image
The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
Edward Abbey
Image
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
Edward Abbey
Image
The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
Edward Abbey
Image
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
Edward Abbey
Image
I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
Edward Abbey
Image
In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
Edward Abbey
Image
My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
Edward Abbey
Image
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
Edward Abbey