Koren Zailckas Quotes

When my daughter was born, I said: 'I feel like I know what I've been waiting my whole life to be.'

Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.

The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

I know that is what I was put on Earth to do - to be a mother.

I'm a parent. I'm a mother.

Because you give birth, because you impregnate someone, that does not automatically give you that title of mother or father. You earn the title.

As anyone who is a father or mother out there can tell you, it's pretty amazing.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

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

I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.

There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do.

Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about it all the time, though it's a silly thing to think about because the kind of mother I'll be depends on the kind of children I have. I can't wait to meet them.

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

It's one of those things where people tell you that when you have kids it will change your perspective on life, and you're like, 'Yea, yea,' but then you really understand it when it happens to you.

Fatherhood is wonderful.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.

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

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

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

Becoming a mother doesn't always change every aspect of your personality.