Daily Inspiration Quote by Michael Zaslow

Zaslow’s line does two jobs at once: it offers comfort, then quietly recruits you into a larger story. “People with fertility problems are not alone” is a direct, almost hand-on-the-shoulder reassurance, but it’s also a strategic reframing. Infertility gets shoved into the private, the shameful, the whispered. He drags it into the open by insisting it has company.

The repetition - “very very common” - matters. It’s not polished rhetoric; it’s the emphatic language of someone trying to break through a cultural filter that treats reproduction as effortless and inevitable. Coming from an actor, that plainspoken insistence reads less like policy messaging and more like testimony: an appeal to shared reality over expert authority.

Then he pivots to “statistics… just staggering,” which is a familiar move in public talk about health: personal empathy backed by the threat of scale. The subtext is that infertility isn’t a niche tragedy; it’s a widespread condition hiding in plain sight. He doesn’t cite numbers, because the point isn’t precision - it’s permission. “Staggering” is there to unburden the listener of self-blame and replace it with something closer to solidarity, even anger at how under-discussed this is.

Contextually, this sounds like late-20th-century infertility discourse breaking into mainstream awareness alongside expanding IVF and a growing media appetite for “private” struggles made speakable. Zaslow’s intent lands squarely in that shift: normalize the experience, lower the isolation, and nudge the audience toward seeing it as a collective issue rather than a personal failure.