Pregnancy Quotes - Page 8

• ...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering is not just a nice extra, it is absolutely essential as it makes the woman strong and therefore makes society strong.

  Marsden Wagner

  Strength, Inspiring, Strong Women

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• I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, I Hate You, Dark

  Pablo Neruda, “Sonnet XVII”

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• You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Agony

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen on Love and Romance”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Love can make even nice people do awful things.

  Jude Deveraux

  Love, Nice, People

  Jude Deveraux (2012). “An Angel For Emily”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality.

  Christine Feehan

  Funny, Uplifting, Personality

  Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan Ghostwalkers Novels 6-9”, p.1230, Penguin

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• When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast
  expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result.
  There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social
  programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty,
  drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Marriage, School, Men

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• The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.

  Jesse Jackson

  Mother, Baby, Attitude

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• One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Stupid, Tired

  "It's Bad for Ya". Comedy album by George Carlin, 2008.

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• Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

  Lisa Alther

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

  Johnny Depp

  Love, Relationship, Two

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

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• Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Christian, Passion

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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• My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

  William Blake

  Birthday, Mother, Father

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Infant Sorrow'

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• Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

  Lexa Doig

  Patience, Parent, Thank God

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• Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Husband, Drama, Pride

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• Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

  George Canning

  Business, Mistake, Failure

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• We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

  Gregory Maguire

  Funny, Uplifting, Baby

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.

  Caitlin Moran

  Duress, Force, Stakes

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• Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her natural reserves of control gave way to sentimentality. Only yesterday she had ended breakfast sobbing over the fried eggs because they looked at her funny. The pack had spent a good half hour trying to find a way to pacify her. Her husband was so worried he looked to start crying himself.

  Gail Carriger

  Husband, Eggs, Yesterday

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• I have such respect for women who go through pregnancy multiple times. I thought it was beautiful being pregnant. The aftermath is brutal.

  Christina Applegate

  Beautiful, Women, Aftermath

  "Christina Applegate On Eating Well, Surviving Cancer And Finding Joy". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Funny, Uplifting, Running

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Relationship, Piglet

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• Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

  Billie Holiday

  Love, Turns, Turn Off

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• If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

  Laurence Housman

  Marriage, Mothers Day, Mom

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

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• ~I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I mean, I just can't believe it. It's like a whole new dimension in emotion that I've never experienced.~

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Believe, Mean, Kids

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• Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.

  Brooke Burke

  Forever, Challenges, Challenging Times

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