Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.
There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that impact.
One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?
The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old routines go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new things.
I know what people want to hear is the connection with the son, Roger, when you have a child. I would love to tell that there was an epiphany as to what it is to be a mom, but I didn't feel any difference there.
When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.
Having a baby can be a scream.
I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth.
My marriage started to go badly wrong after I had my second son.
