Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy
Friedich Nietzsche
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
Erica Jong
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If men were equally at risk from this conditionóif 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 trainsóthen 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
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. I mean, I always knew I was meant to do something really BIG in life, and now I know that this was it. Screw winning an Academy Award someday ... I GAVE BIRTH
Jenny Mccarthy
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
When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape
Charisma Carpenter
In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly
Al Roker
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
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born
George Bernard Shaw
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do
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