Anne Lamott Quotes

All parents remember the moment when they first held their children - the tiny crumpled face, an entire new person, emerging from the hospital blanket.

I was at the birth of my two girls.

It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

When my daughter was born, I said: 'I feel like I know what I've been waiting my whole life to be.'

The first moment I saw my wife breastfeed our daughter minutes after birth, I was hit with a thunderbolt of understanding and awe for the miracle of it all, and I still feel that way.

Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.

I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.

You don't know what love is until you meet your child.

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a female can enjoy. A father shares in that experience, knowing that he caused it to happen.

But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world.

I have to have another child. I have to bring someone into this world that will be here for Dashiell.

A pregnancy is a marvelous moment that I would love to repeat and repeat.

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

But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over.

When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you!

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

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

Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

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.

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.