So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunningdeathshunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.
I still think I'm fat. Right now I'm worrying about how I'm going to lose weight after the pregnancy. I feel like an elephant, but I do get the occasional sexy pregnant day where I think I look great.
That's typical Gabrielle,. . . Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down
I think people are uncomfortable seeing pregnant women, particularly with any kind of conflict. [Pregnancy is] very much a projection of life and love, but it's also very complicated. People have very complicated pregnancies. They could be accidental or people suffer depression, and that was a really interesting thing for me. And a challenging thing. I have not been pregnant. I don't know what that's like, let alone to be really conflicted about it. Acting in the film about pregnancy was a really interesting thing to do.
When I look at 225 million women who want contraceptives, and then I look at the 52 million unintended pregnancies that could be avoided by addressing this unmet need, where can we have the biggest impact with our voice, our dollars, our partners? It's on contraceptives. I would rather address the problem upstream.
I crave cantaloupe like a crazy person. . . But I put salt all over it, so I don't know if it's that healthy.
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.
I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.
When I got pregnant my foot grew, but I was denying it. I've been denying it for three years
Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than be being caused by their own choices and behavior. Thus there is said to be an 'epidemic' of teenage pregnancy, or of drug usage, as if these things were like the flu that people catch just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild - and what happened? The men wilted.
My parents were Christian.
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of inner trust.
Ah swear, ah will croak if she asks me for a pair of Nikes instead of Christian Louboutins!
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.
When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30