(145 quotes found)
“Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted.”
Erica Jong
“Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.”
Queen Victoria
“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament”
Rose F. Kennedy
“Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.”
Mao Tse-Tung
“Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.”
Madonna
“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.”
Thomas C. Haliburton
“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 and chemistry”
Henry Louis Mencken
“If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters”
Nora Ephron
“If you perceive the pregnancy early, then you don't get beat up too badly if you're wrong, and you make a fortune if you're right.”
H. Lance Lessman