Ciara Quotes

It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful.

When my daughter was born, I said: 'I feel like I know what I've been waiting my whole life to be.'

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.

My most amazing discovery was becoming a mother. It changed everything. I can't imagine my life without these little beings.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.

Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old cliche applied: they handed her to me, and my world turned upside down - and I realised I was now going to be vulnerable in more ways than I expected.

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.

I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered.

Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.

When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.

Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger.

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.

When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

Some people won't like me; that's just human nature. I battled with that for years, trying to please people, but now I haven't got time to win people over! I've got nappies to change!

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.