Saoirse Ronan Quotes

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

I'm too young to have kids, but I really want to be a mom. I don't know if it's a Latin thing, but I love kids.

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

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom. I came up with an idea for a story about motherhood that I would want to read.

I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my own life looking like.

I am the mother of five children.

I'm more eager to have kids than I am to go back to college. I want to be a mom really badly.

I don't think anything changes after marriage. Things change in a big way after becoming a mother.

Once you become a mother, your relationships in your own life change. Perhaps with your own mother, and perhaps with your sister. Perhaps with your baby-daddy.

I definitely want to be a mom.

My life is divided up into before I had kids and after.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

I'd love to have a family one day. Having kids is the meaning of life and I can't wait to be a mom.

Definitely being a mom changes your perspective on everything.

I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap.

Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk."

I have two kids, and when my oldest was first born, it was the most vulnerable feeling in the world. I remember taking him to his first doctor's appointment, and on the sheet, it said "mother," and I put my mom's name. I was like, "Oh, right, I ... I'm the mother!" You just feel so vulnerable.

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

I've longed for kids since I was very, very young.

My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.