“ It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life. ”
- Maureen Hawkins- Copy
- 183
“ Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's in water. But certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool. ”
- Elayne Boosler- Copy
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“ Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child. ”
- Loretta Lynn- Copy
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“ Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice. ”
- Queen Victoria- Copy
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“ Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be. ”
- Carrie Fisher- Copy
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“ Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Every pregnant woman has body and self taken over by a chthonian force beyond her control. In the welcome pregnancy, this is a happy sacrifice. But in the unwanted one, initiated by rape or misadventure, it is a horror… ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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“ Because they've either conveniently forgotten with time or they're trying to be supportive, most mothers won't tell you how hard pregnancy (and then childbirth) can be. Let me tell you, it is. It's brutal sometimes! But, if I did it, ANYONE can do it… ”
- Jenny McCarthy- Copy
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“ In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman's right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision. ”
- Barbara Boxer- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton… ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ The time has finally come to share our wonderful news that we are expecting our first child together. ”
- Britney Spears- Copy
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“ It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. ”
- Richard J. Ferris- Copy
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“ Pregnancy is the only time when you can do nothing at all and still be productive. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
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“ When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape. ”
- Charisma Carpenter- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing. ”
- Angelina Jolie- Copy
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“ No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. ”
- Edwin H. Chapin- Copy
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“ There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth. ”
- Penelope Leach- Copy
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“ The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm, The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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