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

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

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.

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.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

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.

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.

You are the closest I will ever come to magic.

Pregnancy is getting company inside one’s skin.

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

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

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.

He plough’d her, and she cropp’d

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

I live by myself. I come in the door, I can throw my stuff on the floor. I can leave the dishes.

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1,000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right.

I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.

My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.

I'd love to play someone who's insane or something, just so I can go flake out. I like a superhero. I know that's ironic. That's where we are, but seriously, it'd be really cool to play a superhero.

I've been riding since I was maybe three or four. Ponies at first, and then I've really always been doing it since.