Because Quote by Jennifer Egan

When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I might actually…

— Jennifer Egan

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby.…

— Kate Atkinson

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

— Meg Cabot

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things…

— Jennifer Weiner

I wanted to have children and I wanted to be with the person I was in love with.

— Helen Baxendale

I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a…

— Jill Hennessy

When I had my daughter and split up with her father six months later, I had a really hard time.

— Laila Rouass

As a child, I remember seeing what a struggle it was for both my parents to accommodate and adjust to the idea of not…

— Dia Mirza

I felt like as a parent, I had to be tough and strong and keep it all together, but I wasn't actually always all…

— Cynthia Germanotta

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

— Meryl Streep

For a while, I was feeling so creative in motherhood that I had no longing to work. I felt that my children needed me,…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.

— Mika Brzezinski