Jennifer Weiner Quotes

It is the patriotic duty of women to bear four children.

I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path to not being a mother.

I'm never as happy as when I'm pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could!

I totally want, like, 18 babies.

I do think about having babies a lot, actually. I think I look forward to that more than anything else.

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

We've gotten probably 40 women who have offered to be surrogates.

I don't see any reason why I couldn't have a child when I'm 40.

… men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this [childbirth] very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children, why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.

I need births, many births.

A very long time, I've wanted to be a mom. When we started this, we didn't know how it was going to end up.

I think it's quite a big decision for women to have children. In our time, I don't think we thought so much about it. We just went and had them and of course, life is not fun-filled and not complete if you don't have them. It's a wonderful thing when you think about it.

I think a lot of women feel pressure to have kids, especially when you get engaged. And for me, I'm like, I don't want that pressure on myself.

I want babies.

I would like to have a baby.

I definitely want to be a mom.

I've always wanted, notionally, to be a mother. And I was certain I would be, because everyone I know, gay or straight, married or single, rich or not so much, who truly wants to have a child figures out a way, some way, to have one - whether through adoption, fostering, surrogacy, fertility, accident, or persistence.

I used to love watching that programme '19 Kids And Counting' and I thought I might just keep going and have 19 kids myself. I had these big plans to home-school them all and I even wanted to be a surrogate as well.

Women today have choices and demand choices, choices to have kids or not and the reproductive technology thereto. And it is a fact [that] most women continue to chose to have children.

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

My body is a baby machine.

I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.

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

I will probably only give birth to two and then the rest will come to our family however it happens. I can only hold two, but you never know. I really want a boy because boys love their mamas!