Becoming a parent Quote by Ainsley Earhardt

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such…

— Angelina Jolie

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard.…

— Anna Todd

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

— Mariska Hargitay

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

— Debra Messing

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong

When I became a mother, my life completely changed.

— Katie Holmes

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

— Sue Monk Kidd

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something…

— Henry Rollins

I became so focused on this desire to have a child that it really took over over my life, not in a positive way.…

— Julia Leigh

Motherhood. It was hard to get lost in anything else completely when children were 3 years old.

— Danzy Senna

Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but catapulted my…

— Tim Cope

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave…

— Christina Aguilera