“Another thing that seems quite helpful to the creative process is having babies. It does not detract at all from one's creativity. It reminds one that there is always more where that came from and there is never any shortage of ideas or of the ability to create. The process of being pregnant and then of having the baby and getting up in the night only puts one more in touch with this fecund part of one's self.” DoeIdeasSelfSeemsNightProcessAbilityCreativityCreativeBabyHelpfulCreative ProcessPregnantShortageHaving A BabyBeing Pregnant Author:Fay Weldon
“... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.” NeedsMayChildrenDoeArtPoetrySexCreativityCreativePoetBabyLaborMetaphorMotherhoodPregnancyFulfillingPrivilegedSailingSlursYeatsByzantium Author:Cynthia Ozick
“Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.” NeedsBigsCareCreativityTakenBaby Author:Susan Sontag
“I told my students the other day in class, which is about the spirituality and creativity as much as it is about music. I said, 'If you're walking down the street and you see a baby carriage, and there's a baby in the carriage; you look down and your eyes meet the eyes of the baby. The baby looks at you: That's the kind of moment you're in when you're playing.” IfsLooksKindSaidMomentsEyeSpiritualityClassCreativityStreetsStudentsBabyWalkingDown AndCarriages Author:Charlie Haden
“Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.” MenKindCreativityBabyImaginativeDouble Standard Author:Siri Hustvedt