“Don’t you dare pee on me.”

“He shook his head and looked away, as if he was giving himself a firm lecture only he could here.”

“As we carry our baby inside us, we know almost nothing about it that distinguishes it from anyone else's baby--except that we love it unlike any other baby.”

“Pregnancy is a time to plan what kind of emotional world our child will grow up in...”

“We go into labor as one person, but emerge as another.”

“Did you just roll your eyes at me?""Yes, I did and you better get used to it if you're going to say stupid things.”

“As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog world about it . . . judging from the shadow, it was soaring higher and more gaily than myself.'Very well,' you will say, 'Why didn’t you turn around. That would be the scientific thing to do.'But let me tell you it is not done ― not on an empty road at midnight.”