Being Quote by Shukla Bose

Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet…

— Sissy Spacek

It's always been very clear to me that I was going to be a mother and that my purpose in life was to give…

— Elle Macpherson

Being a mom has made me feel more like a grown-up. I was always a kid at heart. It makes me feel like I…

— Jessie James Decker

My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to…

— Kirsten Dunst

I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.

— Natasha Gregson Wagner

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

I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother].

— Jennifer Lopez

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

— James Baldwin

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

— Nancy Friday

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

— Nancy Friday

Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of…

— Adrienne Rich

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after…

— Stanley Hauerwas