Quotes About Motherhood

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.

I wanted to be a 'jungle mom', where you're giving birth and getting up and doing things straightaway.

When I decide to become a mother I will just be that. That will be really important to me.

I love being a mom. It's my favorite thing. If I had to give up everything and just be a mom, I would.

I felt this pressure to just be the singer in my family or the musician in my family. But once I had my son, I was like, 'No, I can do all of it.'

We didn't plan one of my kids; they just kind of happened. So I've just kind of taken each one as a blessing sent to me by God.

I followed wrestling, but I had just kind of made peace with, like, that was my career. I'm now a mom, and I'm going to find other things to do with my life.

I moved out to L.A. and had my son and was walking around Gelson's, and I was like, 'Am I just one giant, lactating boob? Is that what I've become?'

I'm going to have four kids in a little over four years and it's just one of those things where I'm going to let life lead me in that direction.

My mom is a huge woman of worth for me because she's been my idol my whole life. My mom was someone who juggled everything. She had her own career, she raised five kids, she was Superwoman... and she was never satisfied doing just one thing because... she probably just had too much energy.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

When I look at a magazine and I see Kate Winslet, I will buy it because Kate lends it a sense of achievement: she is brilliant, sexy, a mother.

I know that from my own experience, after I had my daughter Kelly, I felt great. I just wanted to get back on that court.

Getting a chance to work with Vidya Balan as her daughter is quite cool. 'Shakuntala Devi' is a biopic and I'm quite kicked about it.

I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.

Immaculate conception is the only way another kid is coming out of me!

About six months after I had my little boy in April 2014, I ended up getting a kidney disease.

My kids give me the balance to live right.

I'm not domestic. I think I will be. I love kids. I really want to have a kid, but I'm not a domestic person.

Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.

Whether it be a sage or a king, all have been borne by women.

I'm always cooking and can be found in the kitchen rustling up something for myself and the boys.

Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.