Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I've been wanting to have a baby since I was 2 years old - I'm destined to be a mother.

I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

I was happy to carry on without children because I was completely immersed in my work and my career. I only heard the clock ticking in my late 30s, and when my mother Marion died the year I turned 40 it hit me with such a force that we ended up having IVF, which turned out to be unsuccessful.

I've had other friends who had such a burning desire to have children: they have this biological ticking clock. I don't know what happened to mine. Nobody ever wound it up.

I wanted to be a mom. That's all I ever wanted in my life.

I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won’t go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don’t think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.

I wasn't a person who was longing forever to have a baby; the desire came up suddenly.

I’ve longed for kids since I was very, very young.

It hit me really hard that I want kids in my life.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.

I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.

Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.

I do know I want to have children. That's the only thing missing in my life. I certainly thought I'd have some by now.

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!

A friend of mine told me she's going to freeze her eggs, and I thought, 'Well, I also don't want to be a 55-year-old first time mother,' so you kind of just have to go with what happens.

When I'm ready, I'll have a baby - and I will love that.

Babies smell amazing, but I'm not one of these women who smell a baby and go, 'I want one.' I see a dog over the field and go, 'I want one.'

I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother.