Quotes on Having A Baby

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

Being pregnant was very much like falling in love. You are so open. You are so overjoyed. There's no words that can express having a baby growing inside of you so, of course, you want to scream it out and tell everyone.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.