I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.

I always say I’m one of the toughest mama’s boys you’re ever gonna meet. And I say that to send a message to all the young thugs out there; that it’s nothing to be ashamed of to say you love your mother.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

If there’s a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumor, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

My mother did not like children.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

I want at least five kids. I want twins.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.