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Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.

— Carine Roitfeld

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one.

— Joanna Lumley

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

— Carine Roitfeld

My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.

— Kourtney Kardashian

Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won't crumble around me.

— Shakira

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

— Marie Curie

Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots!

— Neneh Cherry

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.

— Dick Van Patten

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

— Debra Messing

✗Opposing Perspectives

I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year.

— Daniel Wu