Quotes on Pregnancy

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

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.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.

No woman should fear losing her life from pregnancy or childbirth.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than be being caused by their own choices and behavior. Thus there is said to be an 'epidemic' of teenage pregnancy, or of drug usage, as if these things were like the flu that people catch just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I remained faithful, hopeful, and open to seeing the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I stayed open to believing that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.

I would want them to really think about how amazing they are and how lucky they are to be a woman. And how powerful they are. And I'd tell them to love every day of it because it's the biggest miracle and a woman that's able to give birth is the most important, lucky, fortunate woman in the world.