Quotes About Motherhood

I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.

My first priority is my child.

I'd always wanted to be a mom. Actually, being a mom was always my top priority. It was like, 'I'm going to be a star and I'm going to get done with that and then I'm going to go be a mom.'

My kids are my priority, then my husband, then my life, then work.

It is about priorities in life and for me, ever since I have been a mom, my family and kid have been my first priority.

Because a woman goes to prison doesn't mean she's a bad mom - doesn't mean that she shouldn't have her children.

I really enjoy my privacy and being able to walk my son to school every morning and pick him up every afternoon.

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.

As a devoted mother and private person, and with complete awareness that my daughter will one day be old enough to read the news about herself, I would only like to say that I will never, ever be commenting on the dissolution of my marriage.

My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

Jane, Henry VIII's third wife, wasn't present at her son's christening, as ritual dictated she had to spend another month in bed. From her chamber she could have looked down on the christening procession below, and must have felt great pride.

It's funny because, when I was younger, my body was 'better,' but I was more insecure about it. Then, in my 30s, I had children, so I loved my body because of what it had produced.

My producers and directors are pampering me like crazy. I don't mind being pregnant forever.

To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.

I developed my own production company. I'm reading different books and writing, working on myself. I'm being focused on that, but also being focused on in front of the camera and balancing mommy life at the same time. I just want to continue to move forward.

Because I was involved in so many other areas of life and so many productive activities, I wasn't judged for not being a mother. There was no pressure on me for not having children.

As someone whose profession relies heavily on physical activity, I definitely felt extra pressure to get back to my pre-baby shape.

When I look back now, as an adult, I'm able to see my mom and grandmother in a different way that I didn't understand as a kid.

There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

I'm a mother now and married, and knowing what I know now, I would definitely have gone about things quite differently.

For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.

I get so much mail from women who have lost children because one of my books is about that. There was also a period when my marriage was in difficulty, which people connected with.

Being a mom, I can't imagine my child not having a meal. That's hard to digest.