Sharmila Tagore Quotes

I think we are not yet well aware that, unfortunately, we have a short time to be moms. This is not to suggest that we should rush to have children or do it in a crazy way. I think that's the most important decision of a woman's life.

I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

I think it's quite a big decision for women to have children. In our time, I don't think we thought so much about it. We just went and had them and of course, life is not fun-filled and not complete if you don't have them. It's a wonderful thing when you think about it.

I definitely want to be a mum. Lots of my friends are having babies, but I don't know quite when to do it. My mum says, 'There's never a right time; you've just got to get on with it'.

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?

Sometimes I regret waiting so long to have a child, but I don't make the rules. The universe decided it was going to take me a while to get to be a mom!

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

Early on, I didn't intend to have children. I thought it was too difficult a world for them. But then it happened, and I am thrilled to have them now.

I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

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 still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

When are you ever settled enough to have kids?

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

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

There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'

I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.