Emily Deschanel Quotes

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong.

I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.

Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.

For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience.

I'm too young to have kids, but I really want to be a mom. I don't know if it's a Latin thing, but I love kids.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

I think the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.

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.

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.

I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

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

When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made.

I'm a childless woman, yet I felt no maternal urges whatsoever. The prospect of years of broken nights and nappy changes holds no appeal for me.

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

I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

I definitely don't want to have kids. I don't think I'd be a great mother. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have the time to raise a child.