Quotations about Pregnancy

"Quinto Sol" by Frederico Vigil 1992
This picture features a woman, pregnant with the future, surrounded by references to the history of mural painting. Included are pictographs, images from Mexican muralists David Alfaro Siquieros and Jose Clemente Orozco, and a fragment of Michelangelo's "Creation of Man" from the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The title comes from the pre-columbian conception of time.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. ~Lawrence Housman


If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. ~Nora Ephron, Heartburn, 1983


I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable. ~Sherry Glaser


A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence. ~Cathy Crimmins


Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside. ~Rita Rudner


Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes. ~Joyce Armor


There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it. ~Irena Chalmers


A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman,
Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
~Benjamin Franklin


You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"


Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. ~Sam Levenson


Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb


God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics. ~Martin H. Fischer


By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant. ~Phyllis Diller


If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies. ~Barbara Ehrenreich