Quotes About Motherhood

To come to the Oscars for the first time and be seven months pregnant is quite a thing!

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

I have a four-month-old and I also have a toddler, so that takes up all of my time.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one

I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.

In Hollywood, you feel a responsibility to look less disheveled than you are. But I'm a mom, and I'm not good at putting time into prepping.

Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

Embrace it. Especially because of the lives we live, a lot of times other people have to care for [our kids] and you have to have that mommy time, Get your sleep!

I had twins, so it was really uncomfortable [to sleep], because you lay on one side, and there's a baby, and you lay on the other side and there's a baby. So I had a really hard time with it.

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

In philanthropy, you have to take the attitude of a mother... You have to be patient, and we have been very patient for a long time.

My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.

My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.

The best part about playing a mom is that people hug moms. I get hugs all the time. It really makes hard days a lot easier, and easy days are downright joyous.

I'm happy that I took time off to become a mom and raise my daughter properly and build a bond between the two of us.

When my younger sisters were born, I was in high school and college. I was at my mom's all the time but never changed them or fed them.

The center of my life is my kids, I woke up at 3 in the morning with four kids with jet lag and two babies. I put myself together for a few hours and go out. And then I go home. This is my job.

The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.

I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.