Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was a condition. It never computed. And there he was. Everyone made fun of me because I stared at him for months and months, not being able to believe he was real.

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

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.

I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.

I thought I knew what love was before giving birth to my baby, but whatever I had experienced in the past paled in comparison to the utterly unconditional love I immediately felt for the little bundle I now held in my arms.

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that.

...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.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

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.

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.

I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me. I could cry, because she's everything to me. I feel so blessed to be taught so much by her.

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.

It doesn't matter if a child comes to you or through you. That love is still the same. You are still a mother.

I can't even remember anything before Albee. There is this bursting love you feel, but it's so intense and so all-consuming. I've become one of those psychopath mothers who loves looking at my kid and being with my kid, and then, when he takes a nap, I'm just looking at videos and pictures of him on my phone. I'm obnoxious.

I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.

I knew I'd love being a mom, but it's so much cooler than I even thought it would be.

I love being a mom.

To give life another being, what a gift! When he finally was placed into my arms, I looked into his precious eyes and felt an overwhelming, unconditial love... I never felt so complete and empowered in my life.

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

All my children are my babies. They're our babies.