Pregnancy Quotes

• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Woman
  • Catholic
  • Mathematics

• When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Education
  • Thoughtful
  • Pregnancy

• Yes, I will probably be that way. I am sure I will. I think that it shouldn't stop you. I think of course my life is going to change, and I definitely will make sacrifices, but you know, I think I will be able to bring hopefully my little rider with me.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• My contribution to Rent the Runway as the CEO is higher than the contribution of someone on my warehouse team, but my pregnancy is not any more important than the pregnancy of any single person who works at my company.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Important
  • Team
  • Single

• The mystical pregnancy is one of the tropes that I loathe the most because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level.

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • Women
  • Pregnancy

• A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Experience
  • Joy
  • Woman

• My pregnancy was a free for all. I had no boundaries. I just ate, ate, ate. I just said, 'This is my time, these are my nine months; I can just have fun. How big can I really get?' Sixty pounds! I gained 60 pounds!

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Free

• Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I'm grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Motherhood
  • Pregnancy

• The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• I was told it might be quite difficult to conceive, so it really was a great blessing when my pregnancy suddenly happened. I had been diagnosed years ago with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can affect your fertility - but luckily, in my case, it didn't.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Great
  • Difficult
  • Blessing

• Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Future

• It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Pregnancy

• If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Father

• It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I think pregnancy is a huge responsibility.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Responsibility
  • Pregnancy

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

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Bianca Balti
  • Work
  • Baby
  • Pregnancy

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Real
  • Home
  • Baby

• Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Me
  • Creative
  • Phase

• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Feel
  • Blessed
  • Easy

• In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Power
  • End

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