maternal transformation Quotes

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

A child, thought Carl, is not the only result of childbirth. A mother, too, is born. You see them every day--nondescript women with a bulge just above the groin, slightly double-chinned. Perpetually forty. Someone's mother, you think. There is a child somewhere who has made this woman into a mother, and for the sake of the child she has altered her appearance to better play the part.

I'm terrified of babies I think, creatively as a woman, you change once you give birth. I'm totally not ready for that.

It felt like it disrupted my rhythm in growing up. But I will say that I'm really grateful for [my mother's] own personal transition.

I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother].

[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

Being pregnant changes you as a human being and it gives you a whole lot of mixed feelings.