Quotes About Parenthood

Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles.

What was I waiting for with regards to the sea-soaked woman laughing in front of me? What would I tell myself if I didn't watch her grow gorgeously ripe with our baby? If we didn't become sleep-deprived and snappy with each other as we tried to navigate the stormy seas of parenthood together.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

but with a man whose entire body was paralyzed. Well, all except for his penis, which enabled them to have three children, although the thought picture of how this was accomplished wasn't something on which she liked to dwell.

I feel like I was born the day my kids were and that my life before was only there to gain wisdom for them. The point is you do your best. Your very best every day. You do it, and you do it for them!

I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

Now I got kids and I'm more wise now. Life means more to me than having fun. I'm more calm, more wise, and more cautious.

Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.

Life without kids is like a camera without film.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

Children make you want to start life over.

I gave life, and that is beautiful.

The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.

I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.

Becoming A Mother: I'm so sorry it was my life you landed in. This is it. This is who you got. I'll do my best.

A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into this world" (John 16:21).

Adoptive Mom? I am a Mom. I need no other label or prefix.

All my contemporaries— hundred-and-fivers or convicts— will tell you how we lived in barely sentient fear, raising children for the executioner, prison, or the torture chamber.

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

I continue to be interested in the fact that children come out of your body, that giving birth is like pulling the sleeve of death inside out.

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.