Ralph Fiennes Quotes

I don't want to judge, but I've also met women who think it's cool to be out or away from their baby, and I don't get that.

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

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

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'

I am a hopeless mamma's boy.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it because I'm a lady.

To me, a yummy mummy is a mum in her twenties, like Donna Air.

I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.

On my daughter's first day of kindergarten, another mom said something that made me realize I had become my own Greek, suffocating mother. She said, 'Just think, in 13 years they'll leave us and go to college!' And I went, 'Gulp.'

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

Right after you have a baby, the focus is on the baby. You don't feel sexual; you don't feel attractive; and you have a bigger job.

I was worried - I wasn't sure I had the maternal instinct. But the minute my son came out, he was my favorite person on earth. I was crazily in tune with him, and I knew we were going to be fine.

I'm happy that I took time off to become a mom and raise my daughter properly and build a bond between the two of us.

I'm getting asked a lot, 'You don't have kids, so how do you know how to act like a mother?' I know nothing could compare, and I haven't had that experience, but when my niece was born, I felt like I would jump in front of a car and die for this little person I didn't even know yet.

When you hold a baby in your arms, you don't want to put it in a basket right away. You want to keep the baby close.

I have no maternal instincts.

You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny.

I don't understand why you would want to watch someone giving birth.

I just don't believe that a woman is naturally closer to her child than a man. Not at all.

My mom likes to say I've been covering news since the day I was born - longer if you count my time in utero.