Diana Gabaldon Quotes

I love nursing my babies. It's such a special bond for me.

I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand.

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.

There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do.

My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.

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

I totally want, like, 18 babies.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

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

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.

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

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists.

I nursed Mason for 14 months and Penelope for 16, and I loved it. It was built-in time that the two of us could share alone every day. I didn't have any goals or expectations.

I've always wanted to be a mom.

I've noticed that since I've been pregnant I see babies everywhere. I love talking to them. I never used to really like kids that much. I guess it comes out of you naturally.

I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn't the natural mother that I always thought I would be. I adore children, but I was never that interested in newborn babies.

I always wanted to be a mom.

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

I like being a mother.

I always wanted to be a mommy.

I love and appreciate the bonding time with Mason. Nursing is surprisingly one of my favorite things.