Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

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 still learn, but I think it's the best thing in life to have a kid.

My children are, without question, the most wonderful thing. I've learnt more about myself through my children than any other experience in my life.

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.

We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.

I think me having kids is helpful. It opens up a new little area of your heart.

There is nothing so humbling as being a parent to young children!

Once you have linked yourself with love, a flood of inspiration is revealed to you, whatever the subject, whatever the problem in life may be. Whatever it be that your eye casts its glance upon, it will disclose itself. Then you are on the real road, and what a joy this is!

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.

Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

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.

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

I think that kids are a wonderful, wonderful reader to have in your head.

Children change you. They really do.

Children enhance you.

Having twin girls is a life changer - that's for sure. But I like getting up and changing diapers. It's the things you do.

I love being pregnant in general.

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.