Children Quote by Anna Quindlen

I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who…

— Andrew Solomon

As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world.

— Jill Greenberg

A couple of years into filming 'Gladiators', I became pregnant with my first child, and as someone who'd had maternity coursing through her veins…

— Ulrika Jonsson

I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that…

— Hallie Ephron

I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect…

— Kiefer Sutherland

I had really loving parents and a happy childhood.

— Todd Haynes

I was pregnant with my first child and so gloriously happy. I felt fecund and powerful.

— Dervla Kirwan

I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As…

— Lionel Shriver

I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty much single-handedly…

— Shiv Nadar

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

— Debra Messing

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…

— Stephanie Ruhle

Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby…

— Claire McCaskill