I could never reclaim these first precious moments of maternity. But I needed to pay my mortgage. It wasnt an option. I… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
It is a wrench when you have to go back to work after maternity leave, whether you've had two months or over… — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
Happy Mother's Day to someone whose maternity clothes were much less embarrassing than Kim Kardashian's are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mary found again in the adorable Host the adorable fruit of her womb... and began in the Cenacle her new maternity at… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving… — Elizabeth Noble Copy Share Image
You're looking through the kaleidoscope of God and seeing God's face in so many ways, as friends, as strangers, passersby, country roads,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm hugely fond of Scotland. My daughter, Jemma, was born in the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, and it always tickled… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother;… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
I survived a potentially life-threatening childbirth-related complication after delivering my daughter. I learned that hundreds of thousands of girls and women die… — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
Someone once described “Christian Secularism” as the assumption that there is nothing at all to life except a pilgrimage between the maternity… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Guardian angels of the home - Rose and soft green Healing angels - Deep sapphire blue Angels of maternity and birth -… — Geoffrey Hodson Copy Share Image
And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength,… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that,… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Americans often view maternity leave as a time for a mother to recover from giving birth, and anything longer as an entitlement… — Anu Partanen Copy Share Image
Maternity bras are the Alcatraz under-wear. If they were a door they'd have a mortise lock, a padlock and the rest. — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
You don't have to just shop in the maternity section when you are pregnant - you can shop anywhere, just be shape… — Holly Madison Copy Share Image
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
My greatest mistake? I once took a three-day maternity leave. I had my daughter on a Wednesday, and then went back to… — Karren Brady Copy Share Image
“Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say.” — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside. — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity… — Elizabeth Price Copy Share Image
What I've learnt is that being a midwife is not a job about cute babies. And as a maternity care assistant there's… — Emma Willis Copy Share Image
Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic… — Daphne Oz Copy Share Image
It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Beginning in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution, when women started to go into the formal workforce, leaving working at home to… — Jody Heymann Copy Share Image
I’ll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed… — Charles Montgomery Copy Share Image
What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image