A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman’s crowning creative experience of a lifetime.

John Stevenson

The Wonder of Pregnancy

Is being pregnant just unbelievable? Here is how it felt for other woman. What they have to say ranges from it was magical, happy to sweating to death.

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

Rita Rudner

Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.

Harriette Hartigan

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

Gabriela Mistral

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten and the future worth living for.

Unknown

A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die.

Mary Mason

You are the closest I will ever come to magic.

Suzanne Finnamore

Pregnancy is getting company inside one’s skin.

Maggie Scarf

Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain – your life will never be the same.

Catherine Jones

A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.

Unknown

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

He plough’d her, and she cropp’d

William Shakespeare

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

Nora Ephron

We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.

Laura Stavoe Harm

Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.

Jane Weideman

Before you were born I carried you under my heart. From the moment you arrived in this world until the moment I leave it, I will always carry you in my heart.

Mandy Harrison

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

The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Jill Churchill

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

Christine Feehan

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death.

Jessica Simpson

I’m never as happy as when I’m pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could!

Tori Spelling

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love

Thomas C Haliburton

There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.

Pamela S. Nadav

I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb.

Michel Odent

Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.

Holly Madison

Feeling fat lasts nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.

Nikki Dalton

It’s an established fact. Some women can’t stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it.

Rich Cohen

In giving birth to our babies, we may find that we give birth to new possibilities within ourselves.

Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn

You do a lot of growing up when you’re pregnant. It’s suddenly like, “Yikes. Here it is, folks. Playtime is over.

Connie Fioretto

When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.

Suzanne Finnamore

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

Christine Feehan

I fell in love with a beautiful girl, got her pregnant, and then I got married. I wonder whatever happened to that beautiful girl I got pregnant.

Jarod Kintz

Making a decision to have a child–it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Elizabeth Stone

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

Robin Lim

Pregnancy is a process that invites you to surrender to the unseen force behind all life.

Judy Ford

You are the closest, I'll ever come to magic.

Suzanne Finnamore

A baby fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.

Unknown

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

Michael Gurian

I couldn't think of anything else I'd rather be doing.

Jamelia

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.

Charles Manson

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.

Damien Rice

When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.

Mariella Frostrup

There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.

Natasha Leggero

I still feel Mormon. Those men in Salt Lake City can't decide who's Mormon and who isn't.

Sonia Johnson

No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and no one knew him then, either.

Bob Ehrlich

I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.

Peter Zumthor