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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.

— Fantasia Barrino

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

— Angelina Jolie

When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.

— Kevin Nealon

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.

— Mika Brzezinski

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

— Coolio

I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.

— Jill Hennessy

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

— Boris Becker

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

— Meg Cabot

Because I had children relatively late - in my 40s rather than in my 20s - it wasn't anything I ever knew that I would do. It kind of happened to me: I met the right woman and we had children. It was a revelation because it suddenly makes me realize, 'Oh, I get it. Now I know what to do with the rest of my life.'

— Mark Strong

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

— Tracy Morgan

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

— Carol Ann Duffy