We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life …

Gregory Maguire
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production. ✨ Gregory Maguire (2013). The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz, p.26, Harper Collins
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