Miscarriages Quotes

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Deanna Kahler
“Sometimes when life doesn't work out as you planned, there is a greater force at work.”
Deanna Kahler, From Pain to Parenthood: A Journey Through Miscarriage to Adoption

Hilary Mantel
“Queen Katherine, whose boys have all died, takes it patiently: that is to say, she suffers.”
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

Soraya Chemaly
“Women often endure infertility, pregnancy, infant loss, miscarriages, and stillbirths in isolation, because while sadness is a socially palatable response to these often life-altering events, rage, frustration, jealousy, and guilt are not.”
Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

Tor Udall
“She mourns the stillbirth of anything that craves to be born. It doesn't have to be a child. It can be an artwork, an idea, or a miscarried love.”
Tor Udall, A Thousand Paper Birds

“I’d encourage Ann to cling to God’s character in spite of what her circumstances screamed.”
K. Howard Joslin

Soraya Chemaly
“What my sister needed was not people urging her, as so many did, to get pregnant again as soon as possible, but acknowledgment of her loss and the violence that she experienced in that loss. She needed to know that this was not a failure or that she was a bad mother. She needed to be allowed to be not only sad but also, in her grief, to be angry. But as Gunther explained, 'Society does not like to hear from us castaway mothers.”
Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger