Quotes About Fulfillment

Don't get me wrong: I'm overjoyed with my career to date. But perhaps I could have done more. Mostly, I just did whatever the directors told me to do.

All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother.

When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.

I just love motherhood.

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

Motherhood is the most beautiful thing that can happen to a woman.

Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by it - and it is important to be.

A lot of women feel like they should be enjoying motherhood, they should be fulfilled and shouldn't be thinking, 'I wish I didn't have to do this.'

Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's nothing disappointing about it.

Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about.

For a while, I was feeling so creative in motherhood that I had no longing to work. I felt that my children needed me, that I couldn't leave them for a second.

Til marriage and motherhood happened, I was devoted to my work. I didn't see anything beyond it.

Motherhood made me a better person.

I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest calling.

Motherhood is far better than I expected. I love it with all of my heart.

Motherhood and marriage are the best bits of my life now. Who would have thought I would be enjoying that?

I gave my all to my career and later to my marriage and motherhood.

Motherhood is something that everyone should experience and I didn't want to be left behind.

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

There are mothers who sacrifice their dreams for family and feel terrible about it. There are mothers who are career women as well, without being apologetic about it.