Having A Baby Quotes - Page 4

• There are many things children accept as "grown-up things" over when they have no control and for which they have no responsibility--for instance, weddings, having babies, buying houses, and driving cars. Parents who are separating really need to help their children put divorce on that grown-up list, so that children do not see themselves as the cause of their parents' decision to live apart.

  Fred Rogers

  Baby, Children, Divorce

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• Having a baby can be a scream.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Scream, Childbirth

  Joan Rivers, Jerrilyn Farmer (2009). “Murder at the Academy Awards (R): A Red Carpet Murder Mystery”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home, or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Baby, Home, Nurse

  "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• On the way to the delivery room, I almost changed my mind about having a baby. I wouldn't have found it so hard to go ahead with it if I had realized that having a baby was the only way I could ever become a grandmother.

  Phyllis Diller

  Baby, Grandmother, Grandparent

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• Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.

  Anne Lamott

  Baby, World, Roommate

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.188, Anchor

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• My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.

  Natasha Leggero

  Baby, Night, Dui

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• A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.

  Paul Mooney

  Baby, Knows

  "Mooney's Memories: 'Black Is The New White'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 8, 2009.

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• The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby -- there isn't any comparison.

  Chris Evert

  Baby, Book, Winning

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• Having a baby is part of a woman's life, and it is surely a great waste to be afraid of life.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Baby, Waste, Afraid Of Life

  Joan Lowery Nixon (2013). “In The Face of Danger”, p.34, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I gave birth to my first son in April 1986. I thought it would be a good goal to get back in shape after having a baby if I ran the New York City Marathon. I ran in it November 1986. I had just shot the 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit issue, so I was in great shape.

  Kim Alexis

  Sports, Baby, New York

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• When you ask single men in their 20s, "Do you want children?" they want children more than women do. Again, economics drive this. If you're a 29-year-old woman, having a baby is going to seriously blow up your career. If you're a 29-year-old man, it isn't.

  Stephen Marche

  Baby, Children, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My first experience of having a baby was about as natural as birth can be, and though I didn't know it at the time, it set my feet on a path that eventually led me to become a childbirth author and a midwife.

  Robin Lim

  Baby, Feet, Path

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. I have a baby and then you send him off to war. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

  Eartha Kitt

  Mother, Baby, Feelings

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Been thinking about having a baby. But if I want to do it, I'd have to do it soon 'cause it's getting near closing time. The clock is ticking. My gynecologist said, if I wanted to have a baby, I would have to do it - the latest - by the ended of this show.

  Carol Leifer

  Baby, Thinking, Clock Is Ticking

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• Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

  Salman Rushdie

  Baby, Pain, Writing

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• A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.

  Gabrielle Union

  Baby, Couple, Guy

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• Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Baby, Squids, Giants

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of their skulls and feeling depressed, then being consoled by some little thing like watching the patterns the light makes through the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the sidewalks. I remember the line from that poem now. Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

  Kim Addonizio

  Beautiful, Baby, Falling In Love

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• Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.

  Anne Taylor Fleming

  Mother, Baby, Memories

  Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett

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• Having a baby is definitely a labor of love.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Children Love, Childbirth

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• When I first came in, I partied and had a good time. I used to spend $500,000 on chains that don't make no sense. Then I started having babies. I don't do the bull**** no more.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Baby, Bulls

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• I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having babies.

  Hollis Stacy

  Baby, Golf, College

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• For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Girl, Baby, Differences

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• Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

  Lucy Ellmann

  Girl, Baby, Women

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• Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Baby, Thinking, Careers

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