Katharine Hepburn Quotes

I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that.

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.

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.

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

There is nothing so humbling as being a parent to young children!

I definitely want to be a mom.

Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. “You’re going to make a great mother, you know,” he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick.

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

Do you really think we'll ever--" "I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my forehead. "I know it, Sassenach, and so do you. You were meant to be a mother, and I surely dinna intend to let anyone else father your children.

My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.

I totally want, like, 18 babies.

I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt.

I've always wanted to have kids. I do think I would be a great mom.

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I'm getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, 'Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.'

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.

I would like to have three or four kids.

I've longed for kids since I was very, very young. And so... I'm waiting to find the right person, someone who's willing to take on the job.