Anna Torv Quotes

You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

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

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

Definitely being a mom changes your perspective on everything.

I'd gone from being a mum to all of a sudden having people fussing and overly pampering me. It can easily change you.

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

I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby, and this thing comes over them and changes them.

I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.

I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

When I became a mother, my life completely changed.

My whole life turned upside down once I became a mother.

I don't think anything changes after marriage. Things change in a big way after becoming a mother.

Before motherhood, I had a feeling that unmarried women are the strongest. However, that changed after my son was born.

I think that having a baby is going to change my mind in so many ways. I have no idea how, but I'm looking forward to finding out.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

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

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person - you are a different person. It's superficial change that can lead to real change.

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

Motherhood changes everything.