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I really thought when I was pregnant with my first that it wouldn't affect my work at all; it would just be a baby that grows up on set. And I was absolutely wrong. For women, the high point of their career and needing to have babies just don't really go together.

— Jennifer Garner

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

— Yoko Ono

Some women work while they are pregnant, but not me. That was a choice I had made. That's when I took a break. Men can work at whatever stage they are; whether they turn daddy, they still have their own thing. But women can't afford that because by being mothers, they have to be there for their kids.

— Madhuri Dixit

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

— Mariella Frostrup

I did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being pregnant. It's nice, the pace of being pregnant; it gives you a long time to not just germinate a baby but germinate the mother that you're gonna be.

— Ani DiFranco

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

— Queen Victoria

I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.

— Elizabeth Vargas

Women need to understand that it is possible to stay in the workforce. A lot of women decide to take a back seat in their professional careers even before they are pregnant or are ready to have children.

— Ruchi Sanghvi

In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.

— Bethenny Frankel

In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

— Al Roker

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.

— Malaika Arora Khan