A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the…

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

— Robert Genn

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

— Phyllis Diller

Ballet Beautiful has made my pregnancy a joy. I've avoided back pain and swelling by keeping my core strong and body moving.

— Mary Helen Bowers

Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin.

— Maggie Scarf

All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.

— Crescent Dragonwagon

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

— Sherry Glaser

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers.

— Barbara Katz Rothman

In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it…

— Sheila Kitzinger

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

— Rajneesh

Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

— Barbara Katz Rothman

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you…

— Carrie Fisher

If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that…

— Erma Bombeck

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

— Robin Lim

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater…

— George Bernard Shaw