1. "Atrocity has a horrible facility for begetting atrocity."
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H. Beam Piper, Works of H. Beam Piper
2. "In so many ways, his family’s life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another."
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Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
3. "Ute woman holding a child and looking skyward. There was"
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Heather Graham, The Hidden
4. "Together, the two began the kind of conversation that flows seamlessly, unstoppably, each fork begetting another branch of common interest, a conversation that continues until this day."
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David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
5. "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it."
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Quote by Martin Luther King Jr.
6. "They say a girl becomes a woman when she loses her mother. You, child, were born a woman."
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Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!
7. "A woman may not want a lover, but may yet want a child."
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Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex
8. "When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free."
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Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
9. "when I seemed most like a child I was learning to be a woman."
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Louisa May Alcott, Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott
10. "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, thought as a child, behaved as a child. But when I became a woman, I put away manly things."
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Gregory Benford, Foundation's Fear