Quotes About Struggle

I've had a really hard time dealing with 35mm. I greatly prefer HD.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.

The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.

We are genuinely in a world that criticises women even when they are going through the biggest physical challenge of their life: pregnancy.

My back is broken because of the last pregnancy.

What happened during my first pregnancy was that I took a lot of hormones. I had problems with my pregnancy and I was bed-ridden. I had tonnes of issues but it was my mental state that consumed me. I felt like I failed at myself.

I despise pregnancy.

I lost my second pregnancy.

One in five women experience a mental health condition during pregnancy, or in the year after giving birth. It can affect any woman. And it can be devastating.

I had placenta previa, which had me on bed rest for almost four to five months after the pregnancy. I just started putting on weight and falling into some kind of place in my head because it went from shows, award functions and a glamorous lifestyle to just not being able to handle what pregnancy was doing to me.

I am one of those people for whom pregnancy is an ordeal.

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

Becoming pregnant can be difficult at the best of times.

People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.

My mom got pregnant when she was 15. She dropped out of high school. She died in her forties, but before she died, she went back and finished high school.

It was harder to get my driver's license than to get pregnant and give birth.

My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.

When I was pregnant with my second baby, I almost gained 50 pounds. I enjoyed my pregnancy, but then I had to lose the weight for work.

I was pregnant when I left school, so I needed income support. I didn't even have functional skills, not even GSCEs in English and Maths, so I needed to go back to college.

When Buddy Ryan cut me, my wife was pregnant.

We lost a baby at 11 weeks when I was 34, and we got married expecting we would have no trouble having another child, because I'd fallen pregnant that one time. But it just didn't happen and we did about four years of IVF, trying very hard to have a baby.