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Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

— Anne-Marie Duff

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

— Melissa Etheridge

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through.

— Hilary Duff

You know the best part of being a mom is getting that love. Honestly, you know, my son's love... a child's love is so pure, it just makes you feel so good no matter what.

— Ciara

When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.

— Audra McDonald

It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

— Nastassja Kinski

The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.

— Monica Denise Brown

I think in any relationship, even in the healthiest of relationships, we are all parents to each other at times. I think that's a normal, healthy sort of relationship. I think there are times when we're each a mother and a father when we need to be.

— Christopher Stanley

Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

— David Whyte

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

— Fred Rogers

✗Opposing Perspectives

The thing that every parent hopes for is that the baby's healthy, I'm healthy. No matter how you feel, that's the most important thing.

— Bryce Dallas Howard