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Being a mother changes perspective. Things that were once really important, the sole focus of your life, aren't the same.

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

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

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.

I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.

Becoming a mother doesn't always change every aspect of your personality.

Motherhood changes everything.

Motherhood has made me a much better person. I see everything from a new perspective - with a sense of wonderment.