There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.
Seeing my child born is so much more important than anything else I've got going on.
Children give life a reason to be - they make life.
When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.
It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.
When I was younger, I thought every kid was adopted because that's all I've known. I have everything I need, so I never felt the need to have answers for what happened.
Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.
I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.
I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.