Quotes About Maternity

The point of launching a maternity line, for me, was to do something different.

Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.

Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.

What I've learnt is that being a midwife is not a job about cute babies. And as a maternity care assistant there's a lot of cleaning involved. It's a vocation.

The truth is I don't want my baby out in the freezing cold just because there's an election. But there is no such thing as maternity leave in an election. You can't tell the voters, 'Sorry, I am looking after my baby.' It's part of the deal.

I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30-something.

My body is a baby machine.

I always wanted children but I was scared. Being responsible for a baby is such a big thing so I was nervous!

The amount I have cost the NHS for maternity services is phenomenal.

I think everybody is born pure. You never go to the maternity ward and hold a baby that has bad energy.

Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where my parents used to live. 'Brink of Life' was the first one I ever saw. Three pregnant women in a maternity ward and their misery - I love that. That is what I want to show at my funeral.

I am not just pro-birth. I believe in supporting a woman during and after pregnancy.

I think it's been lovely the way people have been really supportive in parliament of my pregnancy.

Spouses are also the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the United States.

Evolutionary psychologists have noted the particular eagerness with which new babies are scanned for resemblances to their paternal, as opposed to maternal relatives – for the obvious reason that it is harder to be confident of paternity than maternity.

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

When a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.

I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government's dead body, frankly. It just won't happen.

13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.

I've been wearing my super gown because someone won't let me go get maternity clothes because they are being a paranoid, drama bear

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.