Lisa Cholodenko Quotes

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.

Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I'm going to be a real mommy.

The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience.

I've always wanted a baby.

I want babies.

I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.

As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with.

Whether you're playing a mom on-screen or you're in a car pool lane driving your child to school in the morning, there are similarities that are undeniable. And once you're a mother, there are certain things that are instinct. You just have a better understanding of what it means to be a mother.

It's a very nice thing to have a baby.

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.

I'm obsessed with being a mom.

Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about it all the time, though it's a silly thing to think about because the kind of mother I'll be depends on the kind of children I have. I can't wait to meet them.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

I totally want, like, 18 babies.

Let me tell you, when you're pregnant with the first one, it's great of course, all new and 'Yay!' With the second one it's still okay; you can pay attention to number one and she can share in the joy of the pregnancy.

Giving birth to a baby does not make you an infant.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

When you have a new baby, you can get really overwhelmed, since it's such a huge responsibility. You're thrilled to be a mom, but your sleep schedule is so thrown off and it can be scary if you don't have a good support system.

I love being pregnant in general.

The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.

When my daughter was born, I was a stay-at-home dad for the first two years.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you!