Pregnancy Quotes (0-)

“Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has one solution: it is called pregnancy.”

“The shamans are forever yacking about their snake-oil "miracles." I prefer the Real McCoy—a pregnant woman.”

“I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie.”

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

“Our mothers' wombs the tiring-houses be,
Where we are dressed for this short comedy.”

“And Venus, thou, with timely seed,
Which may their after-comforts breed,
   Inform the gentle womb;
   Nor let it prove a tomb.”

“They did not understand how my world had shrunk. They couldn't see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn't understand that once the baby came, I would be gone!”

“The question is not 'Can a man do it?' It's 'If a man does have a successful pregnancy, can he survive it?'”

“As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time
That from the seedness the bare fallow brings
To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb
Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.”

“In the dark womb where I began
My mother's life made me a man.
Through all the months of human birth
Her beauty fed my common earth.
I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir,
But through the death of some of her.”

“I found that being pregnant was different from how I thought it would be...It shares a lot in common with writing in a way. You have an imaginary version of yourself pregnant, and an imaginary baby, an imaginary idea of yourself as a mother.”

“The baby is coming in three weeks. I feel anxious. These last three weeks are my last weeks responsible for myself. So I'm trying my best to take care of my child like myself and enjoy my freedom I guess for the last three weeks. This is going to be nothing in comparison to having a child.”

“You become like a vampire when you're pregnant: your senses are so sensitive and your emotions are so heightened – that helps with performance because you really feel things. Any stories about something happening to little girls killed me. Put it this way: I did not find Inside Out uplifting.”

“Timon: Wilt dine with me, Apemantus?
Apemantus: No, I eat not lords.
Timon: An thou shouldst, thou'dst anger ladies.
Apemantus: O, they eat lords. So they come by great bellies.
Timon: That's a lascivious apprehension.
Apemantus: So thou apprehend'st it, take it for thy labour.”

“Each twinge, each murmur of slight pain, ripples of sloughed-off matter, swellings and diminishings of tissue, the droolings of the flesh, these are signs, these are the things I need to know about. Each month I watch for blood, fearfully, for when it comes it means failure. I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own.”