I just started reading Vanishing Act by Jodi Picoult last night and she had a line in there that was so great I had to write it down. I think it is a great insight into motherhood.
"When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one."
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