Pregnancy Quotes

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. (H. L. Mencken)
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. View quote
Nora Ephron
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. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy. View quote
Emily Oster
I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself. View quote
Emily Oster
I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy. View quote
Norma McCorvey
I'm convinced that whatever state you're in during your pregnancy has a huge influence on the baby's personality - so I hope we haven't produced a little serial killer! View quote
Helena Bonham Carter
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. View quote
Erica Jong
Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability. View quote
William Rehnquist
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. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
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)
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. View quote
J. B. Priestley
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect. View quote
Nicholas D. Kristof
Mothers are doing a better job talking about risk, danger, reproduction, consent, unwanted pregnancy. We're not talking about how to balance the risks and joys and we're really not talking about the joys. View quote
Peggy Orenstein
Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
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. View quote
Emily Oster
I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face. View quote
Gisele Bundchen
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. View quote
Ann McLane Kuster
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. View quote
Al Roker
Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically. (Brooke Burke)
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. View quote
Christine Pelosi
It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body. View quote
Carnie Wilson
Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced. View quote
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
I had a perfect pregnancy and a perfect delivery. I was very blessed. View quote
Jamie Lynn Spears