"I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with."
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"A pregnancy is a marvelous moment that I would love to repeat and repeat."
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"WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States."
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"Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."
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"The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason."
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"I gained twenty pounds [during pregnancy of my wife]."
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"It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift."
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"Congress requires states to draw single-member districts."
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"So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter."
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"Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant."
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"Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things."
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"Pregnancy is the only time in a woman's life she can help God work a miracle."
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"I don't really have any different cravings from the ones that I had before. I've always liked food that is not good for you, and I still do. But I think I've been really good with eating healthy. I think probably the biggest thing is french fries, but that's nothing new. Right now, I'm trying to force myself to drink water with lemon. Bo-ring."
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"And my husband and I have been together for 10 years, so I guess people felt a part of it and it makes me feel really good"
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"Certainly miscarriage is not invariably related to low thyroid function. There are many other possible causes. Yet soon after thyroid therapy first became available, it was found that patients with a history of miscarriages often had a history compatible with thyroid deficiency and that full-term pregnancies might follow treatment with thyroid."
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"Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically."
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"It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents."
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"The doctors advised me not to have even one. My health was still not good, and they said that pregnancy might be fatal. If they hadn't said that to me, maybe I wouldn't have got married. But that diagnosis provoked me, it infuriated me. I answered, 'Why do you think I'm getting married if not to have children? I don't want to hear that I can't have children; I want you to tell me what I have to do in order to have children!'"
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"I ran right back to work. My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body."
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"It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body."
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