17 Lovely, Relatable Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes About Motherhood

There is this suspended animation around birth: Everything goes away; the entire world is sucked up; time suspends. It’s just you and, in my case, my husband, and this child, and it’s absolute euphoria.

There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the workday of a mother doesn’t include a hair masking team or any consideration of your shoe.

As a working mother, high heels don’t really fit into my life anymore — but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people. I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I’m at work.

My son doesn’t know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that’s so incredible to be around.

What I’ve learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable that is.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn’t necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

You’re in a constant state of worrying about your children. It’s very painful and it’s exhilarating. It’s a really interesting way of living in the world.

I will do my best to make sure you always have what you need, but I want you pining towards something. I want you to work for something, to dream of it, to will it to happen.

If you have a child, you’re improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.

All I do is organize peoples’ lives and get them here and there and all that. It’s what I wanted and with that, though, comes witnessing somebody hopefully develop into a really interesting, decent person who contributes something.

I feel honor-bound to have a private relationship with my children. And that’s not a judgment about anybody else and what they choose.

I don’t expect any of it to be completely easy, to be honest, and I don’t really think it should be. I think all these particular milestones or developmental stages are really complicated, and they should be because they’re huge!

I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother — and as somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot.

Most important to me is my home life and the well-being of my children.

You’re in a constant state of worrying about your children. It’s very painful, and it’s exhilarating. It’s a really interesting way of living in the world. I read books differently, or I look at parents and children on the subway differently.

I hear music differently or when I see something, I think, ‘I wish Tabitha and Loretta were with me now and they could see this.’ That’s the good part.