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There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

I think motherhood is just about instinct.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

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.

In many countries, women aren't jubilant when they learn they are pregnant. Quite the opposite - they're terrified.

There is a biological power that is intrinsic to the woman, to the female condition. Because you are able to give life. You are the reproducer of the species. Men feel very weak in front of a woman because a woman is capable of eliciting a number of instincts in a man. And that is what has made men very nervous about women.

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.