Pregnancy Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Men, Miracle, Soul

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• Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.

  Louise Slaughter

  Titles, Needs, Half

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• The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Sensual, Style

  'On some technical Elements of Style in Literature' (1885)

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• 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.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Boston, Use, Sacred

  "Gisele Bündchen: Earth Mother". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.vogue.com. March 15, 2010.

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• If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

  Carol Burnett

  Pain, Over You, Feelings

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• The news of my pregnancy spread like a forest fire in summer

  John Sculley

  Summer, Fire, News

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• My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Commitment, Israel, Self

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President”

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• Diet plays in my opinion an important role during pregnancy

  David Downing

  Play, Important, Roles

  "FDA, EPA issue new warning on tuna", www.cnn.com. December 11, 2003.

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• Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of her, and I go, 'Ah, we accomplished this together.'

  Christina Applegate

  Motherhood, Men, Together

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• I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

  Oliver North

  Order, Years, America

  Oliver North, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition (1987). “Taking the stand: the testimony of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North”, Pocket

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• I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

  Wallis Simpson

  Fashion, Travel, United States

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• Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ebb And Flow, Waiting, Tides

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 27, 2015

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• After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

  Christie Brinkley

  Attitude, Miscarriage, Being Positive

  "21 Celebrities Who Opened Up About Their Miscarriages To Support Other Women" by Caroline Bologna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2015.

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• If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Fighting, Men, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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• I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoohah! Apparently I have a lot of amniotic fluid, so whenever my water breaks it will be like a fire hydrant!

  Jessica Simpson

  Fire, Water, Balls

  "Jessica Simpson gives birth to baby girl Maxwell Drew" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. May 01, 2012.

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• All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

  Isaac Asimov

  Cheer, Technology, Men

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• Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  Gro Harlem Brundtland (1993). “Population, Environment and Development”

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• I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.

  Sherry Glaser

  Funny, Baby, Realizing

  Sherry Glaser (1997). “Family secrets: one woman's affectionate look at a relatively painful subject”, Fireside

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• The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

  Jock Sturges

  Mother, Children, Artist

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

  Louise Slaughter

  Abortion, Should, Preventing

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• Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Heart, Noble, Belly

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

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• I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoo-ha.

  Jessica Simpson

  Balls, Sitting, Bowling

  "Jessica Simpson Talks Pregnancy, On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

  Molly Ivins

  Paranoid, Pregnant

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• Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.

  Camille Paglia

  Character, Sexuality

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.38, Canongate Books

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• Nothing sexy about pregnancy.

  Heidi Klum

  Love, Sexy

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