Gabrielle Reece Quotes

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.

I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.

My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

Girls are hard. They're very hard. I love my son. I hear the relationship between mommy and son is the best. Who knows? My husband wants a girl, he really does.

I'm not made to be a mother.

However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.

Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.

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

I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.

Something about family and trying to relate it to the movie with, 'Oh, if I was to have a child how many kids do I want?' And 'do I want a boy or a girl?' I didn't realize you could place orders, I honestly didn't realize it was like a drive-through, that you could talk to a little electronic voice.

There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

I'm living a life. I have nine children.

There have been times when I wanted children and other times I've been grateful not to have them. I am a mess if I have to say goodbye to my dog for longer than five days. I don't know how I would deal with kissing my children as I left for work. I know there are women who are able to do that. I don't know if I could.

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.

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.

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier to believe that the child doesn't come with something.

When you wake up one day and say, "You know what? I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready (to have children).