Jodi Picoult Quotes

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.

Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

I have friends who have children, and they have told me how remarkable it is to have a new life that is a piece of your own flesh anf blood. But I --" "I realized that I didn't love her because she was a piece of me, I loved her because she was a piece of you.

I'm obsessed with being a mom.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn't the natural mother that I always thought I would be. I adore children, but I was never that interested in newborn babies.

I'm obsessed with my children.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

I always wanted to be a mommy.

I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

I was worried - I wasn't sure I had the maternal instinct. But the minute my son came out, he was my favorite person on earth. I was crazily in tune with him, and I knew we were going to be fine.

I am the mother of five children.

I really want to take time and be in the moment with my kid for at least the first year. I know she's not going to remember that, but it's really for the family chemistry.

The relationship between a mother and child is more than just give and take; it is magical.

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

When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them.

When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them.

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.

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

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.