Diaper Quotes

I felt so proud to be having a baby and so excited. And I felt closer to other women - to my sisters, to my mom. I felt empowered, like, `I`ve given birth. I did it! There`s nothing I can`t handle. I`ve really enjoyed this time that I have taken to be with Suri as well as the challenges of the first couple of months: feeding and pumping, learning to decipher what each cry means - is she hungry? Is she tired? Does she need a fresh diaper? - and figuring out how to really help her.

No. I don`t talk about the family. This is kind of an on-going thing that gets, honestly, to be kind of tiresome, only because, you know, you meet people in Boston and they say, `Boy, what`s it like to wake up with Jamie Lee Curtis?` Well, you know what? We`ve been married for 12 years, and we have kids, and it`s not like we`re living some bizarre life here. We go home and we wear sweatpants and the baby takes a dump and we change the diaper. I don`t mean to put you off here, but I just tend not to talk about it.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

(On motherhood) It`s changed just about everything about my life. It definitely puts everything in perspective. Things that were so important to you mean absolutely nothing and the status of his diaper means absolutely everything.

I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?