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There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

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I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that. ↗

— Diane Kruger

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

— Meryl Streep

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I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood. ↗

— Cass Elliot

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But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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being a good mother does not mean being perfect every single moment. we screw up. we get mad, we drink too much, eat too much, yell too much. a good mother learns from her mistakes and does what she can to not let them happen over and over. ↗

— Amy Hatvany

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If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother. ↗

— Kate Atkinson

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You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it. ↗

— Elissa Schappell

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