For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.
A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.
You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.
My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.
Judith: [on Stan's desire to be a mother] Here! I've got an idea: Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb - which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans' - but that he can have the *right* to have babies. Francis: Good...
When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.
Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.
If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet.
I got introduced to audiobooks because of having a baby.
I do not believe having a baby is punishment.
I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not t...
Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.
It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.
Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.
Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.
Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.
I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn. Baby, drink milk. Baby, play ball...
If I did not have my wife, I wouldn't be married, I wouldn't have the life that I have and I wouldn't have my wonderful baby boy who's not a baby anymore - he's going to be eight-years-old.
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term "human" a wide sense): but she had not altogether ceased to be a baby: and babies are of course not human--they are animals, and have a very ancien...
