Stephanie Beatriz Quotes

I'm always the person who's taking everyone else's kid and putting them on my hip, so I've kinda always been a mama.

There are very few people I would trust to look after my children.

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.

I'm quite a good listener, and I'm good at looking after people.

Even growing up, I was always the helper-outer, the sous-chef to my parents.

A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.

I think I'm a really hands-on mom.

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.'

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

I want to find somebody who is going to be a mother to my children.

I've wanted to be a parent for a really long time, and I'm going to make sure I'm doing everything I can to be present in her life, to be her mother. I don't want to be absent from her life.

I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

I feel like I have an amazing support team, between my husband and my nanny and my parents, who are very involved with my kids. I also have an incredible creative team with my manager, agent and publicist.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

My dad is a good dad.

I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child, and hopefully children, as my mom was to me.

I have a daughter and a family.

I want to be a strong, safe mom who my kids also want to be around.

My husband is a good father, concerned about his children.

I do look after everyone around me; that's just who I am. I am a real mother hen.

Family - and certainly kids and a stable relationship - is something bigger than yourself. They need you to sit down with them, be there for them when they wake up in the middle of the night.

I've always been kind of a mom. I was out of my house when I was 18, and my friends used to call me 'mother' and 'care unit.'

It's amazing. I love being an uncle.

I am a single mum. I raised my daughter, and she was very listened to.