Meghan Daum Quotes

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.

It's not something that's at the forefront of my mind, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't have children.

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

Early on, I didn't intend to have children. I thought it was too difficult a world for them. But then it happened, and I am thrilled to have them now.

I have to have another child. I have to bring someone into this world that will be here for Dashiell.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.

Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.

I have wanted to have children. I do want to have children.

Parenthood and having kids puts you in touch with a whole other sort of sensitivity which is nothing but good. You feel more than you ever felt. You feel that vulnerability, but at the same time you wouldn't trade it for anything.

I want babies. Lots of babies. Of course!

I believe there's a secret chemical that's turned loose when you have kids that says you've got to survive, you've got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.

Probably right at the end of JAG, I would love to have a child or two. I ultimately want to have two kids.

The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

Oh yeah, I think about kids all the time. I feel like the next person I commit to, that's going to be the guy who I'm going to have kids with. That's in my crazy female brain. So that's why I'm like, 'I can't commit.'

You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire.

If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would.

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.