Quotes About Pregnancy

A thirteen-year-old girl had got herself pregnant, and had been badly beaten by her labourer father.

Q: How did Burger King get Dairy Queen pregnant? A: He forgot to wrap his Whopper.

I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you!

You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.

I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

I got pregnant and turned 40 at the same time.

Good news!" she chirped. "The doctor says this time it's triplets!

When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.

By the woman's make, her plant has to be out of service three days in the month and during a part of her pregnancy. These are times of discomfort, often of suffering. For fair and just compensation she has the high privilege of unlimited adultery all the other days of her life.

One woman I knew decided, with her husband, to abort a planned pregnancy when a crucial three-day exam was scheduled near her due date. I don't know whether she even asked if the exam could be rescheduled.

Those who advocate that today's youth should be taught abstinence or deferred gratification rather than sex education will find no 1950s model for such restraint. 'Heavy petting' became a norm of dating in this period, while the proportion of white brides who were pregnant at marriage more than doubled. Teen birthrates soar, reaching highs that have not been equaled since.

My girl has got a bun in her oven, and I guess you know who did the damn cooking.

Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn't get with child, but a woman could---every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath.

Whenever a woman gets pregnant, she literally bets with her life.

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

Congratulations,' I said, indicating her belly. I wanted to say something else, but I could never work out whether it was appropriate to say a heavily pregnant woman was 'large', 'not large', 'neat', 'blooming', or any of the other euphemisms people seemed to use to disguise what they wanted to say, which was essentially along the lines of Bloody hell.

That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots.

It's really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it's a really incredible feeling. I'm so grateful I get to experience this.

I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.

The pregnancy test was called First Response, as if an emergency were already waiting for me inside the pink box. Little pink firefighters with little pink ladders waiting to climb up me.

People are kinder to the unborn than they are to the women themselves, and soon I had my ticket.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.