Dorothy Allison Quotes

I think that having a baby is going to change my mind in so many ways. I have no idea how, but I'm looking forward to finding out.

Children change you. They really do.

My whole life turned upside down once I became a mother.

I've changed a lot because I am a father.

Motherhood changes everything.

There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself. And that's kind of what happened with me - I realized, in a few places, I was going down the wrong path.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

Being a mom has changed me forever.

People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.

When certain doors opened around 'Twin Peaks,' I wasn't interested in walking through them. Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children. My life is not dependent on the business in that way.

When I became a mother, my life completely changed.

I've got kids now; it changes you radically.

My life is divided up into before I had kids and after.

I got pregnant five or six months after I retired, and then it was off to the races! It was a complete change of gears, and I was refocusing my life on my family.

You must change your life.

When I had kids I sort of went into a hole for a few years and I think when I came out of that, I started to really become myself and know what works on me.

It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment-when you see that face, you are transformed forever.

I think the last few weeks for me have been just a very different emotional experience. Something I never thought I would feel myself. And I find...a lot of things affect me differently now. As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.

I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.