Acceptance-of-oneself Quote by Stephanie Roberts

“this book has begun to grow inside me. I am carrying it around with me everywhere. I walk through the streets big with child…

— Henry Miller

“The louder you bellyache, the longer your stomach will hurt.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“If you have a strong stomach read on.”

— Amanda Leigh

“For years I’d been awaiting that overriding urge I’d always heard about, the narcotic pining that draws childless women ineluctably to strangers’ strollers in…

— Lionel Shriver

“Pregnancy seems designed to prepare you for life as a mother. You start making sacrifices nine months before the child is born, so by…

— Brett Kiellerop-Morris

“At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe,…

— Kelly Corrigan

“Matron Malice, her belly swollen in the final hours of pregnancy.”

— R.A. Salvatore

“Contemplations on the belly When pregnant with our first, Dean and I attended a child birth class. There were about 15 other couples, all…

— Shannon Hale

“A woman’s body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother’s, a detachable extension of her own, a digestive…

— Alexandra Kleeman

“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

“A stomach, used to being only half filled, becomes complacent; if it starts getting enough, it soon leads to a loud mouth.”

— R. N. Prasher

“A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline