Quotes of Gestation - somelinesforyou

“ If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. ”

- Nora Ephron

“ I was a pregnant vixen. ”

- Heather Locklear

“ 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. ”

- Osho

“ Weight loss after pregnancy is safe but requires attention and guidelines. ”

- Debbie Meyer

“ I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoo-ha! ”

- Jessica Simpson

“ Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife. ”

- Princess Anne

“ The time has finally come to share our wonderful news that we are expecting our first child together. ”

- Britney Spears

“ It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. ”

- Richard J. Ferris

“ The breasts go first, and then the waist and then the butt. Nobody ever tells you that you get a butt when you get pregnant. ”

- Elle MacPherson

“ No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. ”

- Edwin H. Chapin

“ Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do. ”

- Unknown

“ God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics. ”

- Martin H. Fischer

“ How can I have morning sickness when I don't get up till noon? ”

- Rita Rudner

“ The shamans are forever yacking about their snake-oil "miracles." I prefer the Real McCoy - a pregnant woman. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ Pregnancy is the only time when you can do nothing at all and still be productive. ”

- Evan Esar

“ There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. ”

- Jacques Barzun

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

- Phyllis Diller

“ Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin. ”

- Maggie Scarf

“ Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch. ”

- E.B. White

“ Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside. ”

- Rita Rudner

“ Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it. ”

- Andrea Dworkin

“ Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. ”

- Erica Jong

“ I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child. ”

- Loretta Lynn

“ Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant. ”

- Jim Cole

“ These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. ”

- Elizabeth I

“ These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. ”

- Queen Elizabeth
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