Pregnancy Quotes - Page 10

• I ate two waffles, a banana and cereal with blueberries. And that whas between my two breakfasts.

  Amy Poehler

  Two, Cereal, Waffles

  "Emmy spotlight: Poehler's pregnant, not pausing". Interview with Donna Freydkin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 18, 2008.

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• Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

  Lady Gaga

  Love, Inspiring, Dream

  Cosmopolitan, April 2010.

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• Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of outrage that over half a million women die annually from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. This is nearly half the annual global death toll, and arguably, a direct reflection of the disempowerment of women in social, economic and political life.

  Navi Pillay

  Reflection, Rights, Political

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• All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Love, Swimming, Floating

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• That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots.

  Emily Perkins

  Country, Dark, Journey

  Emily Perkins (2012). “Novel About My Wife”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I tried a few times, unsuccessfully, to lose weight. It wasn't until I joined Weight Watchers that I was finally able to do it. I went to meetings and my son came with me. The best thing was that I could eat what I wanted and still lose weight. Slow and steady, I was getting my pre-pregnancy body back.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Son, Weight Watchers, Body

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• I ran right back to work. My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Body, Pilates, Back To Work

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• I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness and reduce suffering, the decision to deliberately give birth to a Down baby, when you have the choice to abort it early in the pregnancy, might actually be immoral from the point of view of the child’s own welfare.

  Richard Dawkins

  Baby, Children, Views

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• Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced.

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck

  Beautiful, Motherhood, Being A Mom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat.

  Kate Hudson

  Watches, Needs, Weight

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• Whenever my water breaks it'll be like a fire hydrant!

  Jessica Simpson

  Fire, Water, Break

  "Jessica Simpson Baby: Her Best Pregnancy Quotes", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.

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• You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Television, Just Being, Birth

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• When I got pregnant my foot grew, but I was denying it. I've been denying it for three years

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Feet, Years, Three

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• Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

  William Rehnquist

  Typical, Different, Disease

  General Elec. Co. v. Gilbert, 429 U.S. 125, 1976.

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• I am absolutely over the moon. The baby's due next June. But I haven't found out the sex of the child and doubt I will. I want it to be a surprise. on news of her pregnancy

  Angela Griffin

  Baby, Sex, Children

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• The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about

  John Hume

  Equality, Rights, People

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 08, 2002.

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• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Writing, Parent

  "Stories for Children". Book by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1984.

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• I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child

  Carol Alt

  Children, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Body Game". Interview with Elizabeth Sporkin, people.com. January 11, 1993.

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• A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Lying, Long

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• It's so much baby and so much amniotic fluid, it's crazy. If we have a 10 pounder, pray for me!

  Jessica Simpson

  Baby, Crazy, Praying

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• I just started calling myself 'Swamp A-.' Like, I have swamp a- right now. I had major swamp a- because I was wearing these Spanx to hold in my gut ... It's like the bayou up in that region.

  Jessica Simpson

  Calling, Swamps, Bayou

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• I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.

  Marie Antoinette

  Complaining, Birth, Kicks

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• It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child; we must go further. We must understand that childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as a physical, achievement. . . The birth of a child is the ultimate perfection of human love.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Mother, Spiritual, Children

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• According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal physiological function for normal, healthy women and their healthy babies. It can, therefore, be inferred that healthy women, carrying healthy babies, can safely birth without peril or pain.

  John Dye

  Baby, Pain, Law

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• 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

  Beautiful, Tree, Bruises

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