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I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

I just love motherhood.

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

Motherhood changes everything.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.