Jane Kaczmarek Quotes

Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies.

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

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?

Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience.

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

If you get a child when you're 50, you'll understand what children are.

My advice for men who aren't yet parents is to make sure you're a happy person before having a baby.

I guess my whole life, as much as I might have wanted a child for the reason that everybody wants one, I always recognized that at no point until I was 50 was I old enough or up to the job. I thought, you know what, I not only really want a child, but at this point, finally in my life, I think I'm up to the job and I'm the type of person who could do the job well and I'm financially prepared to look after a child.

Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.

I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

I'm 48 now and I would like to have another baby. I would love to because of all the things I have learned. It would be like starting all over again. But am I too old? I'm young at heart and I would be different this time round.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.

I think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general would have had a little less spark to them.

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.