Indira Gandhi Quotes

I've had other friends who had such a burning desire to have children: they have this biological ticking clock. I don't know what happened to mine. Nobody ever wound it up.

A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.

I learned so much about the toxicity of our environment while trying to get pregnant, I didn't want to do anything to mess up the kid now that she was finally here.

I was married for five years, and I definitely had that baby fever, which I think you should.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.

I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.

I think I'll probably be pregnant all through my 30s. I've always pictured everyone around the table for the holidays and together once a week. It'll be heartbreaking if it doesn't end up happening, but hopefully it will. We've got some embryos on hold.

I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path to not being a mother.

I've been asked a lot lately if I had a hard time getting pregnant. I've been asked how I conceived. In the same way everyone else does!

I got married to Doug in 2005. I knew that we wanted to delay having children for a while, and I had tried pretty much every hormonal birth control method under the sun.

I was told it might be quite difficult to conceive, so it really was a great blessing when my pregnancy suddenly happened. I had been diagnosed years ago with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can affect your fertility - but luckily, in my case, it didn't.

I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother.

Time waits for no ovary.

I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.

I couldn't have children, I tried to for years. I've never been pregnant in my life. When I was a girl and fooling around I was scared to death I'd get pregnant, and then when I got married and wanted to have children I couldn't have any. But I don't miss it. I did for awhile, but I realize that I am everybody's mother.

Physicians would have to inform pregnant women of the risks of childbirth and motherhood. They would have to note that childbirth, compared to abortion is 14 times more likely to result in maternal death and is more often associated with depression and other forms of mental illness, They would have to emphasize that working women in the United States can expect their wages to drop 9 to 16 percent for each child, and that having a child makes it significantly more likely that an unmarried woman will ever marry.

There is no way to treat fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses as separate constitutional persons [separate from the mother] without subtracting pregnant women from the community of constitutional persons.

Hearing that I had a 3 percent chance of ever having kids was one of the more devastating moments in my life.

I went through years of unsuccessful fertility treatments, first in my hometown of D.C., then in New York City, where it finally happened - I got pregnant with my son, my miracle boy.

Michael was divorced, lonely, and wanted children. I was the one who said to him, 'I will have your babies.'

I do feel at a loss for not having a child of my own at times, very much so.

Right after I had Anaiya, I definitely wanted more kids. I was like: 'I think I could do this professionally.' Because I loved being pregnant so much.

I wanted to have children.

I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children.