Anjelica Huston Quotes

I'm not made to be a mother.

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

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

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.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.

It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.

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

A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason.

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

I definitely don't want to have kids. I don't think I'd be a great mother. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have the time to raise a child.

I have never had a nanny with any of my children.

I encourage women who are starting families to think about the five-year horizon. The first few years of parenthood are really hard, but if you stick it out, it gets easier.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job.' Being a mommy is a relationship, not a profession.

As motherhood as a "private enterprise" declines and more mothers rely on the work of lower-paid specialists, the value accorded the work of mothering (not the value of children) has declined for women, making it all the harder for men to take it up.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

Life is only lived full-time by women with children.

I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.

Children,” Lady Bridgerton said with a sigh as she retook her seat. “I am never quite certain if I’m glad I had them.

Should have dogs before they have kids. Everybody.

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

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

The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.