“When you have a child, you get a surge of ambition, or a surge of hormonal urgency, to get something done, something worthy of your new station in life.”— Nicholson Baker, theparisreview.org
“I wasn't a fearful man. I did things some people even called brave. Y'all made a coward of me. I been terrified since the day you were born.”— Graham Gordy, Nic Pizzolatto, Wayne Hays, Mahershala Ali, imdb.com
“I would much rather have a kid with nine fingers than a resourceless kid.”— MacKenzie Bezos, nytimes.com
“Having given birth and run marathons? I now know I can do anything physically.”— Christy Turlington, vogue.co.uk
“Children are a kind of cartography, and all one has to do is obey the map they present to you on the day they are born.”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com