Pregnancy Quotes

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  It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

  Voltaire

  Future, Goal, Said

  The Portable Voltaire Philosophical Dictionary Concatenation of Events

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• 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

  Baby, Cat, Being A Mom

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  Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

  Barbara Katz Rothman

  Mother, Strong, Inner Strength

  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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• Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Motherhood, Hands

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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  People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

  Jessica Simpson

  People, Pregnant Women, Being Pregnant

  "10 things not to say or do to a pregnant woman" by Ella Alexander, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 2, 2017.

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

  Rajneesh

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

  Mariah Carey

  Mother, Jobs, Children

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• For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Birth, Joyful, Conscious

  Sheila Kitzinger (1990). “The Experience of Childbirth”, Viking Press

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• Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

  Robin Lim

  Inspiring, Profound, Spirituality

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• 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

  Miracle, Wish, Growing

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• By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

  Phyllis Diller

  Baby, Common, Birth

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• Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

  Sam Levenson

  Baby, Children, Fun

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• I think your body is just a little bit stronger after pregnancy.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Thinking, Stronger, Body

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• 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

  Women, Taken, Worry

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Wish, Twists, Birth

  "Ahead of her time: a sampler of the life and thought of Mary Wollstonecraft".

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• Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.

  Louise Slaughter

  Children, Track, Abortion

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• Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Years, Half, Literature

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• 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

  Real, Giving, Lucky

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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

  Joy, Way, Childbirth

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• We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.

  Joanna Lumley

  Eight, Males, Nine

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• The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Abortion Laws, Feminist, Healthcare

  "Thornburgh vs. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists". "Abortion and Protection of the Human Fetus: Legal Problems in a Cross-Cultural Perspective". Book by George F. Cole and Stanisław Frankowski, 1987.

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• Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.

  Holly Madison

  Journey, Goal, Focus

  "Holly Madison Reveals How Pregnancy Has Changed Her (for the better!)". Interview with Elena Donovan Mauer, www.thebump.com. January 15, 2013.

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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

  Children, Able, Cheated

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

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• Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin.

  Maggie Scarf

  Skins, Company, Being Pregnant

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• I'm probably going to deliver my baby in these [4-inch YSL heels] ... I went to the doctor yesterday and he said, 'You're gonna need to get out of those heels!'

  Jessica Simpson

  Baby, Ysl, Doctors

  "Jessica Simpson: I’ll Give Birth In 4-Inch Heels!" By Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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