Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by…

Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

— Marlene Dietrich

“All around the world, people are exuberantly laughing right now.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried…

— Ronald Reagan

Just wanted to show my children how their mom look like when she was young.

— Newlove

Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

— Maeve Binchy

“She hadn’t ever wanted children and yet she had. She had and she did”

— Maggie O'Farrell

My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same…

— Alison Moyet

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

— Jeanette Winterson

“If I had wanted children of my own, I would have gotten married. If I had wanted to get married, I would have fallen…

— Carroll Bryant

From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire.

— Brooke Shields

I wanted my children to never feel like they were unsafe. I wanted them to have everything they needed.

— Jimmy Barnes

It's what we all wanted when we were children- to be loved and accepted exactly as we were then, not when we got taller…

— Louise Hay

“Of course you wanted your children to have it better than you had. But at what point was it not better at all?”

— Philipp Meyer

I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who…

— Indira Gandhi

Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

— Gwen Stefani