Quotes on pregnancy
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.
Ehrenreich, Barbara
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Housman, Lawrence
Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.
Rudner, Rita
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
Ephron, Nora
God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics.
Fischer, Martin H.
There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.
Chalmers, Irena
By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.
Diller, Phyllis
I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.
Glaser, Sherry
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Levenson, Sam
You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
Barry, Dave
Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.
Abbey, Edward
Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.
Armor, Joyce
A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence.
Crimmins, Cathy