Kelly Corrigan Quotes

I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a hundred dogs and a hundred kids.

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

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

My life is divided up into before I had kids and after.

Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job.' Being a mommy is a relationship, not a profession.

A mother's role is God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, bear, nourish, love, and train. They are to be helpmates and are to counsel with their husbands.

The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place.

The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.

Do you really think we'll ever--" "I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my forehead. "I know it, Sassenach, and so do you. You were meant to be a mother, and I surely dinna intend to let anyone else father your children.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we’re doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

Children are what the mothers are.

Would I like kids? If I knew I could be - and how could I put this delicately - faithful, then yes. I do like kids.

Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

Children change you. They really do.

The Lord has been there from wanting to be a momma, to having a wonderful childhood life and dreaming of having a good motherhood as a child; always wanting to meet a good old country boy and having someone to love as much as I love my husband Roland and having a little boy that is a mixture of the both of us.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

I've longed for kids since I was very, very young. And so... I'm waiting to find the right person, someone who's willing to take on the job.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

My career choice was to be a mother.

The only thing I've ever wanted in my life is to be a mom and a wife.