Maternal Joy Quotes

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

I see myself as mom first. I'm so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I'm happy.

Being pregnant is supposed to be the happiest time in your life.

When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

I just feel motherhood should be a happy stress-free period for all women.

My pregnancy was amazing. I was happy that whole time, I felt good, I had energy, I was like Superwoman. I wish I could feel like that for the rest of my life, that's how fantastic it was.

Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

I fell in love with words and I think that made my mom smile. I think that was cool for her.

A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

I love being pregnant. You can do whatever you want.

I had a pregnancy that wasn't private... A lot of people had their opinions about it. They were surprised that I came up pregnant, which was a surprise to me, because I'm a woman, and women get pregnant, and Lauren comes first before the actress, so having my son was the best thing that ever happened to me.

My theory is, 'Happy mommy, happy baby.'

There's this culture where we celebrate people snapping back into shape a week after the birth, but I don't want to be one of those people - I just want to enjoy Arabella.

My kids make me laugh every day. And they're so supportive. As I get older, they understand those things I worried about - the guilt of being gone - in a way that's so healing for me, when they say, "Mom, we know you love what you do. We love to watch you do what you do."