Rachel Dratch Quotes

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.

I've noticed that since I've been pregnant I see babies everywhere. I love talking to them. I never used to really like kids that much. I guess it comes out of you naturally.

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?

I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

I really want to take time and be in the moment with my kid for at least the first year. I know she's not going to remember that, but it's really for the family chemistry.

Motherhood is quite challenging. Everyday is a whole new adventure with your child.

You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.

Motherhood is the greatest thing I've ever done in my life.

When you have a little 10-month-old who is climbing up your leg because you are their mountain - there's no nobler reason to get out of bed every day. There's no better reason to live, to make sure you provide as much guidance and as much room for that child to thrive.

I'm obsessed with being a mom.

In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

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.

I never thought I'd have a daughter.

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.

Children enhance you.

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

I love being a mum. Sophia is so funny and has a great personality.