Play Quote by Susie Orbach

I think if you've never been pregnant, you can over play pregnant and you can do a lot of different things with pregnant.

— Angelina Jolie

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

— Erica Jong

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

— Emily Oster

Being pregnant changes you as a human being and it gives you a whole lot of mixed feelings.

— Jason Reitman

Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.

— Brooke Burke

“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

I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still…

— Jill Scott

Knowing someone else is going through the bizarreness of pregnancy with you makes it feel a little less impossible.

— Elisabeth Hasselbeck

There are alternatives to pregnancy if you want another child.

— Mallory Ortberg

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

— Emily Oster

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 for women to feel more connected with their bodies, and yet often the opposite occurs.

— Amanda de Cadenet