Kim Basinger Quotes

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.

My children were the center of my life.

I am just trying to live for my kids. It is all about my kids now. I love them endlessly.

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life... until you have a child in your life.

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong.

What having a child - and especially a daughter - has done is lifted more of the veil for me: allowed me to see things on another level compared to how I used to see them.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character.

I think that when you have kids, it's all about them.

I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter, you know? If I'm in a store, I'm looking at baby clothes. It's so much cuter to find things for her than to find things for me.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

I saw my aunties and my mum give up a part of themselves and their dreams to have kids. There were things they wanted to achieve in life, but they had kids instead.

Having children really changes your priorities.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

My children are my whole life.