Mercedes Schlapp Quotes

I've never been particularly maternal.

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

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

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

There's no real substitute for the care of the real mother.

I have no maternal instincts.

We need to recognize how difficult and important being a mother is.

Like most women, I always dreamed of becoming a mother.

I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest calling.

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.

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

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 soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

I like being a mother.

I just love motherhood.

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

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.

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

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

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

The maternal instinct is in me.

This whole thing of motherhood is insane.