quotes about Pregnancy
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If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.
-- Adriana Lima -
In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.
-- Al RokerSource : Al Roker (2000). “Don't Make Me Stop this Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
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When you're pregnant you just want to be comfortable - but I wear more or less the same as I do when I'm not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I'll want the floaty dresses!
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
-- Alexis de TocquevilleSource : Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”, p.11
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
-- Anais Nin -
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
-- Andre Breton -
The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.
-- Ann McLane KusterSource : "The Case for Contraception" by Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.
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For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.
-- Ann McLane KusterSource : "The Case for Contraception" by Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.
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Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.
-- Ann McLane Kuster -
The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby.
-- Ann Romney -
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
-- Anwar Sadat -
Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.
-- Ashlee Simpson -
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There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
-- Audrey Niffenegger -
I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to terminate the pregnancy. It was my third pregnancy, and I was very obviously showing. More important, I could feel the baby move.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman's right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision.
-- Barbara Boxer -
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If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength
-- Barbara Katz RothmanSource : Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press
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According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices are given to women, but not to men- just for birth control. I've reached the conclusion that to many doctors BEING A WOMAN IS A DISEASE
-- Barbara Seaman -
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
-- Ben Kingsley -
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The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.
-- Ben Shahn -
A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.
-- Bernard NathansonSource : Bernard Nathanson (2013). “Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by The Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind”, p.130, Regnery Publishing
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I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.
-- Bethenny Frankel -
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I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
Certainly miscarriage is not invariably related to low thyroid function. There are many other possible causes. Yet soon after thyroid therapy first became available, it was found that patients with a history of miscarriages often had a history compatible with thyroid deficiency and that full-term pregnancies might follow treatment with thyroid.
-- Broda Otto Barnes -
Thyroid secretions in adequate amounts appear to be essential for development of the egg and for proper ovarian secretions. If thyroid function is low, an egg may be discharged from an ovary but it may not be fertilizable or, if fertilized, may not be capable of nesting so that pregnancy is quickly aborted.
-- Broda Otto Barnes -
Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.
-- Brooke Burke -
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We really kind of pioneered a technology here at Fossil Rim where we use ultrasound on both our white rhinos and black rhinos and we can even document pregnancy in animals at about 30 days.
-- Bruce WilliamsSource : "Texas reserve offers safari-like experience" By Stephanie Oswald, www.cnn.com. February 16, 2001.
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Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
-- Busy Philipps -
Becoming a mom allowed me to just relax in a way I never had before. I used to care a lot about what I looked like in public or what people thought of me. I care at least 40 percent less now.
-- Busy Philipps -
A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.
-- Caitlin Moran -
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
-- Carl Sandburg -
It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body.
-- Carnie Wilson -
Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my pregnancy... So sue me!
-- Carnie Wilson -
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I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child
-- Carol AltSource : "The Body Game". Interview with Elizabeth Sporkin, people.com. January 11, 1993.
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If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett -
Our parents were musicians.
-- Caroline CorrSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.
-- Carrie Fisher -
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The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.
-- Carrie Fisher -
It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.
-- Carroll Quigley -
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
-- Catherine DeneuveSource : "Beauty and style secrets from our favourite French". www.stylist.co.uk.
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When he saw what drugs or alcohol or unwanted pregnancy did to kids he fell in love with, he realized there had to be a straight path
-- Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez -
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Family and friends and Rene and the pregnancy fulfilled me with so much love.
-- Celine Dion -
When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape
-- Charisma Carpenter -
Christina Aguilera finally announced her pregnancy. Thanks for waiting until your third trimester to get the word out—why not just wait until you’re crowning?
-- Chelsea Handler -
No, she did not have a history of twins, and we had discussed all of this before she got pregnant. What if all three, what if two eggs, what if one - you discuss every scenario.
-- Cheryl Tiegs -
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She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing.
-- Cheryl Tiegs -
Well, I guess, but I just feel so strong. Actually, it was probably when I was 50 that we were trying to - to get pregnant, and I thought that I could do it then.
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I remember distinctly telling my father-in-law, barring a miracle, we're going to have to terminate the pregnancy. Her health has to come first
-- Chris HigginsSource : "Faith, medical technology save a young mom" By Rhonda Rowland, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2002.
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When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs-in the service of birthing women, not their master.
-- Christiane Northrup -
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Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth
-- Christiane Northrup -
The Greatest Pregnancy Ever is a treasure. It should be the very first thing a pregnant woman reads - in fact, every woman who intends to have a baby will be thrilled with the empowering message here.
-- Christiane Northrup -
After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be
-- Christie BrinkleySource : "21 Celebrities Who Opened Up About Their Miscarriages To Support Other Women" by Caroline Bologna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2015.
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I have such respect for women who go through pregnancy multiple times. I thought it was beautiful being pregnant. The aftermath is brutal.
-- Christina ApplegateSource : "Christina Applegate On Eating Well, Surviving Cancer And Finding Joy". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.
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Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of her, and I go, 'Ah, we accomplished this together.'
-- Christina Applegate -
The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.
-- Christine Pelosi -
We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.
-- Christopher Eccleston -
I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.
-- Cindy Margolis -
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You check the pregnancy test every month, and when it comes up negative it can start to wear on you
-- Cindy MargolisSource : "Margolis tackles off-screen challenge" By Kat Carney, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2003.
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The easiest way to get your body back after baby is to not gain too much weight during your pregnancy!
-- Constance Marie -
When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
-- Danica McKellar -
I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
-- Danica McKellar -
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But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process?
-- Daniel Barenboim -
This medical device gives doctors a new option for treating twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. It can help prolong the mother's pregnancy and improve the odds of survival, with reduced complications, for one or both twins.
-- Daniel Schultz -
Sometimes, when I'm feeling down because nothing seems to be going right, I like to take a home pregnancy test. Then I can say, Hey, at least I'm not pregnant
-- Daniel ToshSource : "Comedy Central Presents: Daniel Tosh". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.
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There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good
-- Dar WilliamsSource : "Seeking a 'Better' world". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.
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We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.
-- Dave Lombardo -
Pregnancy is a uniquely intimate relationship between two people. All of us luxuriate in this relationship once, and half of us are lucky enough to be able to do it all over again a second time, from the other side as it were. Never again outside of pregnancy can we be so truly intwined with someone else, no matter how hard we try.
-- David BainbridgeSource : David Bainbridge (2001). “Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy”, p.6, Harvard University Press
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Diet plays in my opinion an important role during pregnancy
-- David DowningSource : "FDA, EPA issue new warning on tuna", www.cnn.com. December 11, 2003.
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Prior to Roe , ... whether one could obtain a legal abortion in the face of an unwanted pregnancy was a crap shoot. For 30 years now, it's been a constitutionally guaranteed right
-- David Garrow -
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I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant'.
-- Dean MartinSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.
-- Deborah Bull -
My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
-- Dionne Warwick -
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
-- Don MarquisSource : "Story of a Feather", in "Punch", Volume V, p. 55, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 911-17, 1922.
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I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.
-- Dustin Hoffman -
We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.
-- Dwight Yoakam -
Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.
-- Edwin MosesSource : "Olympian Edwin Moses Helps Kids Clear Their Own Hurdles". "Here and Now" with Meghna Chakrabarti, www.npr.org. August 20, 2013.
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Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.
-- Elisabeth HasselbeckSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.
-- Eliza Bisbee DuffeySource : Eliza Bisbee Duffey (1873). “What Women Should Know: A Woman's Book about Women, Containing Practical Information for Wives and Mothers”, p.165
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To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of inner trust.
-- Elizabeth Noble -
However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.
-- Elizabeth Noble -
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I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.
-- Emily Oster -
For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.
-- Emily Oster -
That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots.
-- Emily PerkinsSource : Emily Perkins (2012). “Novel About My Wife”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
-- Erica Jong -
Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild - and what happened? The men wilted.
-- Erica Jong -
If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
-- Erma Bombeck -
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That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down
-- Eva Longoria -
The difference in my body from pre-pregnancy to post-baby was night and day. I didn't have the strength, I didn't have the flexibility, I didn't have the stamina, I didn't have the mobility. I felt like I was handicapped.
-- Evangeline Lilly -
For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality.
-- Fay Ripley -
Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression.
-- Faye Wattleton -
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The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
-- Felicity HuffmanSource : "Don't threaten women's health care" By Felicity Huffman, www.cnn.com. February 29, 2012.
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Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.
-- Florida Scott-Maxwell -
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
-- Florynce Kennedy -
The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.
-- Frank GaffneySource : "Red storm ahead" by Lou Dobbs, www.cnn.com. July 15, 2005.
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