Dogen Zenji Quotes

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Being a parent can be overwhelming at times, but it's something we're figuring out as we go.

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

Because you give birth, because you impregnate someone, that does not automatically give you that title of mother or father. You earn the title.

I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.

Giving birth to a baby does not make you an infant.

Children change you. They really do.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

I still learn, but I think it's the best thing in life to have a kid.

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

It doesn't matter if a child comes to you or through you. That love is still the same. You are still a mother.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

Nobody can raise your kids like you can yourself.

Motherhood is such an evolving journey.