Tilda Swinton Quotes

For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists.

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.

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

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

Early on, I didn't intend to have children. I thought it was too difficult a world for them. But then it happened, and I am thrilled to have them now.

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

...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.

I don't like going away from my children.

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.

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.

I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter, you know? If I'm in a store, I'm looking at baby clothes. It's so much cuter to find things for her than to find things for me.

I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this was the first person I would willingly die for. I had the same strong feelings when my daughter was born.

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

I love being a mom - I really do! I didn't realize how much I would love it!

I knew I wanted to be a father; I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid would come out so beautiful and lovely.

Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.