I'm happy to say I lost the weight after the baby. Of course, it took me four years, and we adopted.

We have nine children now - half girls and half boys.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness.

A child's attitude to everything is always an artist's attitude.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.