Diana Gabaldon Quotes

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, and there were all these little boys and girls. So sweet. And then the teenagers walk past, and, my God, they're enormous, and I bet they don't kiss their mummies. I'm just going to force my children to remain lovely.

I am the mother of five children.

I'm a parent. I'm a mother.

I'm the mother of four.

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

When children are little, they really need you in one way. When they're bigger, they need you as a friend. And balancing motherhood and career makes you both a better mother and a better businesswoman.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.

As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.

On her daughters: I have a 5 year old and I have a 1 year old.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a hundred dogs and a hundred kids.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.