The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the men.”

How can you ever say anything negative about your body after you have felt the dancing of life from inside your womb?”

—Amethyst Joy

“You are mom enough.”

Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood – finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

-Jodi Picoult