Top 100 Pregnancy Is Quotes
#1. 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
#2. A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort 'belongs' to her.
Shulamith Firestone
#3. The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.
Jesse Jackson
#4. Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.
Pope Francis
#5. Pregnancy is a time to plan what kind of emotional world our child will grow up in...
Roni Jay
#7. For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality.
Fay Ripley
#8. Pregnancy is the only time in a woman's life she can help God work a miracle.
Erma Bombeck
#9. A pregnancy is a marvelous moment that I would love to repeat and repeat.
Paz Vega
#10. Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
Carine Roitfeld
#11. I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child.
Carol Alt
#12. The biggest food-related risk in pregnancy is listeria. It's a dangerous bacteria, to which pregnant women are especially susceptible, that can lead to miscarriage or stillbirth.
Emily Oster
#13. Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.
Susan Cheever
#14. I don't particularly like being pregnant. I like the baby at the end. Pregnancy is a very distant thing for me. I can't seem to believe there's really a baby there. It's such a miracle.
Mary Beth Whitehead
#15. American Health Insurance Companies have classified pregnancy as an illness, so if pregnancy is an illness was the baby-boom a plague?
Jayseth Guberman
#16. It wasn't just that my breasts were sore and my legs seethed with restlessness at night. A knitted cap seemed to have settled on my brain as well. Never think that pregnancy is just a spare room in a woman's house; it changes everything - the heat, the light, the furniture.
Marni Jackson
#17. Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
Robert Anton Wilson
#18. Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.
Chris Smith
#20. Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.
Brooke Burke
#21. Weight loss after pregnancy is safe but requires attention and guidelines
Debbie Meyer
#22. Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability
William Rehnquist
#23. Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin.
Maggie Scarf
#24. A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#25. The thing that's nice about pregnancy is that in the end, you have a baby.
Ann Romney
#26. Pregnancy is uncomfortable and draining, and the end isn't in sight until it becomes unbearable.
Sophie B. Hawkins
#28. Yes, I will probably be that way. I am sure I will. I think that it shouldn't stop you. I think of course my life is going to change, and I definitely will make sacrifices, but you know, I think I will be able to bring hopefully my little rider with me.
Beyonce Knowles
#29. The desire to procreate, in some, is so strong that it creates a sort of tunnel vision in the afflicted. One can't see beyond trying to make a baby, and they never stop to think about what it will really be like once said baby has in fact, arrived.
Karen Fowler
#30. A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.
Peter Jackson
#31. Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births.
Joe Lieberman
#32. When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too...
Various
#33. The hideous thing is this: I want to forgive him. Even after everything, I do. A baby before my 17th birthday and a future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but somehow forgot.
Katie Cotugno
#34. I am definitely feeling 'intimate.' I'm kind of unstoppable at the moment! Like the big 'O' is like the biggest 'O' ever.
Jessica Simpson
#36. Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use of herbal potions to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were made from animal bladders.
Karen DeCrow
#37. Life is sexist. If you were to get pregnant, you're the one whose life changes. Nothing of significance changes for the boy. You're the one people whisper about. I've seen that show, Teen Moms. All those boys are worthless. Garbage!
Jenny Han
#38. It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.
Sheryl Sandberg
#39. Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
Mao Zedong
#40. The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#42. A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence
Cathy Crimmins
#43. When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.
Thomas Frank
#44. If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.
Michel Odent
#46. Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over.
Sam Mendes
#47. Ariel Gordon is superbly, supremely, a poet of the body. She finds words for the physicality of the forest, of the garden, of pregnancy. Hump speaks the erotics of being alive and being in love with being alive.
Robert Kroetsch
#48. Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.
Christina Aguilera
#49. I think some people just use pregnancy as an excuse to really pig out. To be really disgusting. I am just going to eat this is my opportunity. I waited for this my whole life. I was not one of these people.
Jennifer Lopez
#50. I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb.
Michel Odent
#51. What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed
Darnell Lamont Walker
#52. I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.
Rafe Esquith
#53. If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
Jane Fonda
#55. The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.
Alexander Theroux
#56. 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
#57. It is extraordinary how much you are theirs, and how little they are yours. The child grows inside you and there is something mystical and mythical in that, but then you actually see that you are nothing more than the box in which they come. There is this total person, already formed, themselves.
Glenda Jackson
#58. A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.
C.S. Lewis
#59. Conception is a blessed event.
Fertilization is divine intervention.
The development of embryo is a miraculous encounter.
The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception
Grantly Dick-Read
#61. There is nothing to lose in this life. Naked I came from mother's womb and naked will I go into the grave.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#62. I would counsel her to maintain the pregnancy on the grounds that the developing baby within her is a co-victim
of the rapist's heinous crime. To kill the fetus, who is innocent of the offense, is to add insult to injury.
R.C. Sproul
#63. How is it that you're such an expert on home pregnancy kits?"
You're asking that question of an Italian stallion like myself? The women call me 'sperm of thunder'. I don't dare stand too close for fear I may impregnate them with just a whiff of my manhood.
Jill Smolinski
#64. A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.
Gracie Allen
#65. After my pregnancy, I discovered I have an allergy to yeast. Problem is, all the food I love has yeast in it. So I have to relearn how to cook.
Tia Mowry
#66. It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#67. I have a question. Is it okay to drink while you're pregnant ... if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption?
Chelsea Handler
#69. It is common sense that when women are able to plan their pregnancies, populations grow more slowly and as a result so do greenhouse gas emissions. Providing access to contraception and preventative health should be one of the many effective strategies used to fight climate change.
Kavita Ramdas
#70. By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.
Phyllis Diller
#72. I think that there's a real sense in which pregnancy should be something that you do with your doctor, but I think that for a lot of women the time you have with your doctors is limited and it can be difficult to get all of the answers to your questions.
Emily Oster
#73. The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.
Carrie Fisher
#74. The thought of you pregnant is hotter than a blacktop in August." His hand fitted over the softness of her belly. "Filled with my seed. My wife. Mine." He cupped her breast, swiping her nipple with his thumb. "Swollen here, damp with milk.
Amber Lin
#75. There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.
Penelope Leach
#76. The streets transform every ordinary day into a series of trick questions, and every incorrect answer risks a beat-down, a shooting, or a pregnancy. No one survives unscathed. And yet the heat that springs from the constant danger, from a lifestyle of near-death experience, is thrilling.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#77. Love is nature's way of ensuring pregnancy
Sujatha
#78. There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.
Irena Chalmers
#79. In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#80. Take down your baby bump photos from Facebook, take down pictures of your kids too. It is your job to protect your children and not parade them around like little circus freaks or glorified mini-you's.
Brandon Kelly
#81. In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.
Katha Pollitt
#83. You can hear now. Your inner ear is formed.
I shout "I love you" into the bedroom. Then I feel stupid. Then I don't. This is pretty much the story of my life.
Suzanne Finnamore
#84. Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy.
Erich Fromm
#85. You know this business, Cole. Your production budget is climbing faster than Lindsay Lohan's chance of a crack baby pregnancy.
Alessandra Torre
#87. The Democratic policy is any abortion, any time, for any reason at any point in a woman's pregnancy, right up until the last minute, to be paid by taxpayers. Barbara Boxer described this policy as, 'It's not a life until it leaves the hospital.'
Carly Fiorina
#88. Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do
George Bernard Shaw
#89. Ultimately abortion takes place because there is something wrong within the culture, within the system, and not simply because this or that particular woman is seeking to end an unwanted pregnancy.
Ronald Rolheiser
#90. 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
#91. The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief ... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.
Emma Goldman
#92. I think your body is just a little bit stronger after pregnancy.
Paula Radcliffe
#93. The total number of pregnancies in which powerful and dangerous drugs are used is 60 percent, or nearly two-thirds of all births. It is rediculous to think that two-thirds of American women have such lousy uteruses that they must be whipped into shape with drugs in order to have babies.
Marsden Wagner
#94. God is not crushing the dreams of parenthood when he deals the card of infertility. God is asking you to crush the idolatry of pregnancy, to be sure. And, he is saying: Dream My dreams, not yours!
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#95. You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.
Sandra Dallas
#96. For all live births, the mean pregnancy length is 38.6 weeks, the standard deviation is 2.7 weeks, which means we should expect deviations of 2-3 weeks to be common.
Allen B. Downey
#97. At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.
Lydia Davis
#98. The right to privacy ... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.
Harry A. Blackmun
#99. A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman's crowning creative experience of a lifetime.
John Stevenson
#100. I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.
Cindy Margolis
