Childhood Quote by Anna Quindlen

“At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe,…

— Kelly Corrigan

“When the child must be weaned, the mother too is not without sorrow at the thought that she and the child are separated more…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“Good and bad, he was taken for granted; she was much more lenient to him than to any of the children. She welcomed the…

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

“Again, as it was after Udayan’s death, there was an acute awareness of time, of the future looming, accelerating. The baby’s lifetime, so scant,…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“What is this solution?’ asked Sparrow. ‘The breakdowns are a rejection of birth by men who have unconsciously retreated into the world of prebirth.…

— Frank Herbert

“The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation,…

— David Bergen

“Children born to unwed mothers,’ he said after a long silence, ‘have parts of their souls missing.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“I am sure I loved that baby quite as truly, quite as tenderly, with greater purity and more disinterestedness, than can enter into the…

— Charles Dickens

“As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar, not bathing,…

— Jane Hersey

“Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. J.B. PRIESTLEY”

— Janice Lane Palko

“I may not have known much about pregnancies but I knew that you couldn’t have a son or a daughter without actually doing it…

— John Boyne