Quotes About Motherhood

When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%. Soon. I started thinking I want my kids to look back and say, 'Wasn't Mummy amazing?' I've really started thinking about what I'm leaving for them.

I've got a big mummy heart.

Being a mummy is definitely my most favourite job of all, without a shadow of a doubt.

It's weird. I went so far away from music that I had to re-invent music again. I had to come back to music. I had to put music with an agenda down and at least write for my son, write to keep writing, but the idea of having a music career had to go away for a while.

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

Growing up, I didn't see that many Muslims on TV and we don't see many now. But essentially I am a mother and that's the job I know best.

I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

I have a daughter. I have my imagination. I have friends. I, in no way, am going to louse that up with some idiot man, frankly. They drag you down - I'm talking about my generation of men.

I'd love to have more kids. I'm one of four, and I've always dreamed of having a huge family. I've loved every second of having Sophia. It's been just the most amazing time of my life. I'd love more of it.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

I applaud women, and I did my best and took my time after having a kid - in a healthy way, get back to a place where I felt good in my body.

Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.

I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child.

I always feel guilty when I want to go get my nails done or hair done because it takes time away, but I know moms need that alone time, too.

Before, I would go out and get my hair blow-dried or my nails done but now that I'm a mum my 'me time' happens when the boys go to bed. I'll jump in the bath and put a leave-in conditioner on my hair and paint my nails.

My mother and I have always had a very close relationship, so I wanted to honor my mom by naming my daughter Julia as well.

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

I think a lot of moms get really scared that if they have a nanny that somehow the child is going to love them less and attach more to the nanny. But, I haven't had that fear.

There was no way I was going to have a baby and hand him over to a nanny.

My nanny had me mam when she was 16.

With my babies, if I wanted to go pick them up I would just go in the room in the middle of the night, but Nicky is very much on a schedule. This is nap time, this is tummy time, so I'm just kind of like, 'Okay.'

America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones.