Spalding Gray Quotes

Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.

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.

I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.

From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire.

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

I would love to have children, as I am such a mommy. I have always been like that.

I always knew I was going to be a mommy, and because I came from a family of three kids, I always assumed I would have three!

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

I've never been particularly maternal.

It's not something that's at the forefront of my mind, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't have children.

There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a hundred dogs and a hundred kids.

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

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.

I've noticed that since I've been pregnant I see babies everywhere. I love talking to them. I never used to really like kids that much. I guess it comes out of you naturally.

My children were the center of my life.

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.

I think motherhood is just about instinct.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.