Annoying Quote by Lionel Shriver

I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.

— Carol Bartz

When I had my first child, I went back to Ireland to live with my mother. So, a typical day there was me being…

— Roisin Murphy

I was always meant to be a mom. As soon as I had my kids, it just felt so natural.

— Jessie James Decker

Not having a mum was my thing. It came with a sort of fame. Other kids couldn't get their head around that. But looking…

— Kathy Burke

Motherhood brought me even closer to my own mother - I realised everything she'd been through.

— Amanda Redman

I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.

— Cindy Gallop

I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and…

— Samantha Fox

My mother was very hard on me when I was a child. I think she was raising me how the world was treating her.

— Erika Jayne

I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by…

— Anne-Marie Duff

I was a single mother when my child was little.

— Gloria Allred

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing…

— Amy Tan

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