Jennifer Weiner Quotes

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

When I decide to become a mother I will just be that. That will be really important to me.

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong.

Every normal woman that is a mother will do everything for your baby to make sure he is happy. Every mother understands that the baby is only happy being with his or her mother.

I've always wanted to have kids. I do think I would be a great mom.

I had an amazing mother. She raised nine kids, practically as a single parent, which is the hardest thing in the world. Nine of us! Day in and day out. She had to make sure we all had an education and that we all felt loved.

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.

I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.

I just love motherhood.

Being a mother was too important to me to risk running out of time.

I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum.

I had a mother who gave me everything.

A mother does a thankless job; they take care of their children unconditionally.

I just know I have so much to teach my child. And I just feel kind of like, what would our world be without mothers? What would our world be without mother love? I don't think we'd have a world.

Motherhood is always an act of courage.

My No. 1 hobby and interest is being a mom. It's something that makes me passionate, you know?

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

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

I'd be the best mum ever. I would. I've got great training from my mum.

You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.