Eula Biss Quotes

You'll do anything for your child and that's what I'm doing.

When you become a mother, it's a common thing that you just want to put every ounce of your being into your child, which is a very beautiful experience.

There's one person that you would give up your life for, and that's your child.

I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me.

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.

I'm a mother, and when you have children, there's a protection. You'll do a lot to protect them, to do what's best for them.

I think that, being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

My baby is obviously more important than anything else.

Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.

I'm a mother lion when it comes to protecting my children.

I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it is now, and I'm coming at it from another angle - like you just love and care about this person so much, and just want to protect them from everything.

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

I am a mother first. I will always be a mother, and I would die for my kids if need be.

My sister, like our mother, always put her children first.

Mum and dad are always looking out for me; they just want the best for me.

Motherhood is always an act of courage.

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

Nothing outside of my child is important.

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.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

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

Even more than we want good love for ourselves, we want it for our children, those vulnerable satellites of our hearts that we send, unsteady, into the world.

Thank God for your mother.

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.