Quotes About After Giving Birth

#1. I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth

Paula Radcliffe

#2. Will I ever again doubt that miracles exist? Not after giving birth to my daughter at 47 without fertility treatments, after surviving breast cancer.

Susan McBride

#3. Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.

Kim Hyesoon

#4. I loved being pregnant. I felt unapologetically curvy, sexy, and intensely feminine. After giving birth I joined the ranks of millions of new mothers when I moaned, 'Why do I still look pregnant?'

Olivia Wilde

#5. Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in her body and gave birth to me out of her desire but washed her hands of me after giving birth to me as a poet.

Kim Hyesoon

#6. When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external ...

Jodi Picoult

#7. Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different.

Beyonce Knowles

#8. Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us.

Kim Hyesoon

#9. Step one to preventing PPD is to find time to sleep after giving birth, no matter how euphoric you feel.

Ina May Gaskin

#10. In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany.

Christian Schwochow

#11. A 66-YEAR-OLD woman has become the oldest new mum in Britain after giving birth to a baby boy. I'm amazed she needed to have a caesarean section though, you'd think at 66 she would have needed some masking tape down there just to stop it falling out.

Frankie Boyle

#12. When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outlet for myself. My first two books were created during my pregnancies and after giving birth to my first child.

Josie Bissett

#13. You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the decision. But as soon as you feel like you're creating a product to just cater to what you think they want, it never works. It always feels phony. And the audience can tell immediately.

Rob Zombie

#14. Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

Hugh Grant

#15. I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down i will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my enemies and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.

Marcus Luttrell

#16. I think I've loved you since that first day.

Emery Lord

#17. Saved for a far more glamorous doom, she was.

Barbara Newhall Follett

#18. Remember our wonderful memories, but please don't be afraid to make some more

Cecelia Ahern

#19. Victory, union, faith, identity, time, Yourself, the present and future lands, the indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery, Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports. This, then, is life;

Anonymous

#20. So age after age - will it be soon, O Lord? -

Beneath the scalpel of nature and art,

Our spirit screams, our flesh depletes itself,

Giving birth to an organ for the sixth sense.

("The Sixth Sense")

Nikolay S. Gumilev

#21. Come on Josie." He leaned closer and whispered in my ear, "I really want you there."
"Yeah?" I asked, slamming my locker shut. "And do you always get what you want?"
"Yes," he said.

Rachel Vail

#22. I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.

Janine Di Giovanni

#23. Places don't stay where you left them. You go back there, anywhere, and even if it looks exactly how it did before, it's somewhere else.

Alan Moore

#24. She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.

Euripides

#25. For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

Pearl S. Buck

#26. If you have enough spiritual strength, you will give birth to a spiritual child, and through your life and practice, you continue giving birth, even after you die.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#27. Many people struggle with losing weight and then regaining it. But there is no convincing evidence that the effort to lose weight actually promotes more weight gain in the long run.

Francis Collins

#28. Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.

Morris West

#29. Women often approach me with a question- "Will I look like you after I give birth?". I say to them- "Well, have you looked like me before?". People, do not be fooled.

Heidi Klum

#30. I had done the No Doubt record Push and Shove, and that was a real challenge for me: I think after the giving birth twice, going on multiple tours, all the stuff that I had done, I really got quite burned out after that.

Gwen Stefani

#31. With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

Mariella Frostrup

#32. The seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

Vicki Baum

#33. Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it's a villain.

Sherwood Smith

#34. To love and be loved is the very thing our souls scream for from birth and every moment after, the urge to need and be needed as natural as breathing, as life-giving as breath.

Lisa Wingate

#35. A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don't survive after a time because they've been sick too.

Lucy Liu

#36. No one is evil. But evil is within us all.

Lizzy Ford

#37. My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

Koichi Tanaka