Pregnancy Quotes - Page 22

• What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creativity, Birth, Given

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• Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Hero, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Dawn of Day”, p.137, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• ... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Baby, Art, Sex

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• The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Holiday, Chinese, Demand

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• The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive question as "Is your wife having natural childbirth or is she planning to be knocked out?" But someone might ask that of you. No matter how much you wish for privacy, your pregnancy is a public event to which everyone feels invited.

  Jean Marzollo

  Men, Wife, Wish

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• Pregnancy is the only time in a woman's life she can help God work a miracle.

  Erma Bombeck

  Miracle, Helping, Only Time

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• Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Real, Week, Seven

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• The news of my pregnancy got out when I was in the middle of my first trimester. I hadn't even had a chance to tell my friends. That alone was so ugly. It made me hyper-protective ... I feel uncomfortable with people reading too much about my pregnancy or my relationship. It grosses me out. It's too sweet to read about or dissect.

  Jennifer Garner

  Sweet, Reading, People

  "Garner slams press for leaking pregnancy". www.sfgate.com. August 18, 2005.

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• Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning for women. If women cannot plan their pregnancies, they can plan little else in their lives.

  Alice S Rossi

  Mean, Rights, Political

  Alice S. Rossi (1973). “The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir”, p.517, UPNE

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• How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established by fashion? What do you, at the age of forty-three, have to say on the subject? Is it a fact that the laws of nature, or of the country, or of propriety, have ordained this time of life for sterility?

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Fashion, Numbers

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• A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.

  Mary Blakely

  Suicide, Teacher, Children

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• Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Children, Sleep, Veils

  Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”

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• Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Earth, Sacred, Looks

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• A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence

  Cathy Crimmins

  Baby, Periods, Lifelong

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• Which is more like genocide, I have asked some of my black brothers - this, the way things are, or the conditions I am fighting for in which the full range of family planning services is available to women of all classes and colors, starting with effective contraception and extending to safe, legal terminations of undesired pregnancies at a price they can afford?

  Shirley Chisholm

  Brother, Fighting, Color

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.137, Take Root Media

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• I had a lovely pregnancy. It was a beautiful, magical time for us.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Beautiful, Lovely

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• I'm a homer, so the closer [I perform] to my house the better. If I could get crowds to gather around my bed, that would be ideal. I also like doing stand-up in places that I can surf, snowboard, or anywhere that I have a pregnancy scare.

  Daniel Tosh

  House, Scare, Bed

  Source: www.collegehumor.com

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• Every extra year you spend in a better environment makes you more likely to go to college, less likely to have a teenage pregnancy, makes you earn more as an adult, makes you more likely to have a stable family situation, be married, for instance, when you're an adult.

  Raj Chetty

  Teenage, College, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Broadly Americans agree that women need access to health care to prevent medical disasters and to prevent pregnancy.

  Sandra Fluke

  Needs, Care, Medical

  "Andrea Mitchell interviews Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke moments after speaking with President Obama". Interview with Andrea Mitchell, info.msnbc.com. March 2, 2012.

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• I know they don't recommend Ibuprofen during pregnancy, but you needed something fast for the hangovers.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Hangover, Humor

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• I was just disciplined. I knew I had to get back into shape after six weeks for the film Goal II, but I cheated in the end - I wore a corset. I loved my pregnancy, I blossomed. I felt goddess-like and very secure. I found it comforting to have a little thing growing inside me, and very calming.

  Anna Friel

  Goal, Comforting, Growing

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Baby, Flames, Life Is Like

  "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

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• Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Inspirational, Strong

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.180, Penguin

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• When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.

  Andy Warhol

  Believe, People, Looks

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Marriage, Acceptance

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.394, A&C Black

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