“I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.”
Loretta Lynn (1932) American country-music singer-songwriter
Lynn, Loretta (2001). Coal Miner's Daughter (Reissue edition). Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-30-681037-9.
On election night, as reported in Amy Chozick's book Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling (2018) and quoted in "Hillary Clinton On Election Night: ‘They Were Never Going to Let Me Be President’" https://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-clinton-they-were-never-going-to-let-me-be-president by Gideon Resnick, The Daily Beast (20 April 2018) <br class="br">Attributed
“I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.”
Loretta Lynn (1932) American country-music singer-songwriter
Lynn, Loretta (2001). Coal Miner's Daughter (Reissue edition). Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-30-681037-9.
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model
On her role in To Have and Have Not (1944)
Private Screenings interview (2005)
Paul Blobel (1894–1951) German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator
Source: Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 162 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961.
“I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Treason (1988)
“I knew what it was going to do, what it was going to tell me.”
Ram Dass book Be Here Now
Be Here Now (1971)
Context: I had plenty of LSD, but why take it. I knew what it was going to do, what it was going to tell me. It was going to show me that garden again and then I was going to be cast out and that was it.
Benjamin H. Freedman (1890–1984) American businessman
His opinion that there was a secret deal that resulted in the US entering the First World War on the side of the English.
Willard Hotel speech (1961)
Abby Sunderland (1993) Camera Assistant, Inspirational Speaker and Sailor
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 175