Quotes About Motherhood

My daughter is almost a young lady. She's going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out.

I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.

It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.

Apart from sharing my tips on toys or snacks, I'm open to hearing new ideas from other moms. I want to learn, too.

I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen.'

You're supposed to look a certain way when you're a celebrity, but I want to take care of my baby, and those two things don't mesh very well.

Mommy. It's just the one thing you don't want to mess up.

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.

I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat.

I love that time when all you want to do is cocoon with your baby in your own little world, when you carry them around all the time in a little pouch or sling.

I can't wait to have kids one day. I want to have kids and a farm with lots of animals on a lake.

I like to take my time and not try to put too much pressure on myself, but it's hard. I think I forget every time - you give birth and you want your stomach to be flat again.

I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.

Ever since my daughter was born I feel the fleetingness of time. And I don't want to waste it on getting the perfect lip color.

There are alternatives to pregnancy if you want another child.

I think my mom did everything pretty close to perfect, and I want to be the cool mom that the kids run home to.

I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.

I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.