"Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption"

"Its love that makes the world go round, my baby"

"We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby"

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other"

"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio"

"Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy"

"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"

"I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz"

"I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant"

"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"

"In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare"