Empathy Quote by Laura Moriarty

“As time passed, I began to get depressed and cried a lot. It was not because of my pregnancy. Praise the Lord, I wasn't…

— Helen Goldie

“Her initial elation had given way to something unexpected: a heightened sadness. Even depression.”

— Mitch Albom

“These pregnancy hormones were a crazy, unknown, terrifying bitch.”

— Chloe Walsh

“With this pregnancy, unlike my others, I was fully aware of the possibility of blissful, painless, potentially even orgasmic, and fully natural, unmedicalized childbirth…

— Adrienne Carmack

“She wished, fleetingly, that her mother was not her mother, and for this she felt not guilt and sadness but a single emotion, a…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it seemed as…

— Naomi Wolf

“Pregnancy is a time to plan what kind of emotional world our child will grow up in...”

— Roni Jay

“Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than…

— Caroline Moorehead

“She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface. Sometimes she would feel it there and…

— Diane Chamberlain

“No one should have to go through life feeling inadequate because of what she was denied by birth or circumstance.”

— Barbara Cutrera

“..a new baby is not uninterrupted bliss. It's joy mixed with terror, fatigue, depression, intense feelings of helplessness, loneliness and inadequacy. And poop.”

— Carolyn Hax

“When you are pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that…

— Jodi Picoult