A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.
I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.
Being pregnant is a wonderful thing. I have never understood why people make such a big deal of it though.
I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
My pregnancy changed my relationship with my body because I went from despising it to marvelling at what it can do.
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.
It's important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it's our baby. Genetically it's ours. It's our embryo. We feel very connected.
When I had my first child, I was too embarrassed to tell a single soul that I wasn't the over-the-moon, picture-perfect new mother I was supposed to be.
I didn't consider myself a huge baby person. I'm not like, "Oh my god! I want to hold every baby!" And some women just have that engraved in their minds.
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
There have been times when I wanted children and other times I've been grateful not to have them. I am a mess if I have to say goodbye to my dog for longer than five days. I don't know how I would deal with kissing my children as I left for work. I know there are women who are able to do that. I don't know if I could.
Childbirth and being pregnant is something that I've always wanted. I feel like you feel the most feminine; you look the most feminine.
Pregnancy is a time for women to feel more connected with their bodies, and yet often the opposite occurs.
When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?
Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different.
I don't have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies.
I'm always the person who's taking everyone else's kid and putting them on my hip, so I've kinda always been a mama.
When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.
I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder. [after having her daughter]
I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn't believe it.
I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
I think the best thing about being pregnant would definitely have to be seeing just my belly grow and seeing, like, wow, there is, you know, something inside of me.
I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn't the natural mother that I always thought I would be. I adore children, but I was never that interested in newborn babies.
