My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she’d stick me in front of the camera. That’s how it started. – Alyson Hannigan
I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to terminate the pregnancy. It was my third pregnancy, and I was very obviously showing. More important, I could feel the baby move. – Ayelet Waldman
I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are. – Alex Campbell
I’m used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby. – Abbey Clancy
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they’re like, ‘I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?’ – Allison Pearson
Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don’t talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby. – Barbara Delinsky
All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. – Abraham Maslow
Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman’s right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to ‘Stepford Wives.’ – Chuck Palahniuk
When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage. – Adam Davidson
I always tell people, ‘Coming from such a big Mexican family when there’s a new baby every three weeks, you have to do something to get someone’s attention.’ – Becky G
No one looks at a baby and says, ‘You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.’ Something in us says: ‘This is what I must do.’ – Alice McDermott
I have cervical cancer. I’m what they call a DES baby… I have been cancer free for 7 years now… I had it the first time when I was 19 and then it came back a few years later after I went through treatment. – Amy Weber
In Hollywood, whenever you do anything, it seems like there’s going to be 30 of them. When I did ‘Look Who’s Talking,’ people went: ‘Oh but there’s going to be this baby movie and that baby movie.’ I can’t worry about that. I can only do what I want to do. – Amy Heckerling
I have the greatest husband. The baby is my main focus right now. We’re both so excited. I mean, this is definitely the happiest moment in my life. – Ashlee Simpson
Everything is so aggressively marketed at every age: if you’re not in Baby Gap, you’re not cool. That’s how everybody’s grown up, so they don’t even know it could be another way. – Catherine Hardwicke
Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them. – Ann Brashares
We tried – we tried for a year, and we tried different methods and different – and I had in vitro and it didn’t work. It didn’t stick. It didn’t – didn’t produce a baby at all. – Cheryl Tiegs
When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time… Of course it’s not remotely like seeing a baby for the first time, but I can remember with each book what room I was in when I opened it. That would be excitement, though, I think. Not pride. – Colm Toibin
Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics. – Ayelet Waldman
I’m not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I’m looking for my daughter, you know? If I’m in a store, I’m looking at baby clothes. It’s so much cuter to find things for her than to find things for me. – Alessandra Ambrosio
I’m actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I’m on the stage I’m like, ‘okay, we’re gonna rock this baby.’ – Armin van Buuren
How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we’re not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born. – Birch Bayh
The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in. – Anna Friel
It’s important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it’s our baby. Genetically it’s ours. It’s our embryo. We feel very connected. – Bill Rancic
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you. – Anne Lamott
Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies’ butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport, just everything. – Bethenny Frankel
The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings… it’s strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie… keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies – it soars in a way that’s really magical. – Al Jarreau