Lynsey Addario Quotes

As a photographer who is constantly in violent, bloody situations where the instinct is to turn away, I am always trying to figure out how to make people not turn away.

I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Becoming a mother and then losing your mother is quite... well, they both change you profoundly, and you have to give yourself time to understand what's happened with that.

I know I'd be a good mom.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that.

Do you really think we'll ever--" "I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my forehead. "I know it, Sassenach, and so do you. You were meant to be a mother, and I surely dinna intend to let anyone else father your children.

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.

We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.

moms aren’t the best audience for medication humor.

Once you're a mom, whether you're kids are next to you or far away from you, you're always a mom.

Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

I dig being a mother.

Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.