"I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child, I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow"
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Coming from a musician whose public identity was forged in the machinery of pop fame, the line reads like a private counter-myth. Pop stardom sells perpetual youth, motion, lightness; her fantasy is domestic, slow, and seasonal. Cutting out pram pictures from newspapers feels almost devotional, a child collecting artifacts of a future self, trying on adulthood the way other kids try on costumes. It also hints at a desire for control and continuity: if childhood can be unstable, imagining a pram route you choose, on a street you can name, offers a steadier script.
The maternal instinct here isn’t framed as biology or destiny so much as aesthetic longing - for a certain kind of life, with ritual and repetition, where progress is measurable in tracks behind you. It’s also gently melancholic: winter implies beauty, but also isolation. The fantasy acknowledges what motherhood can promise in a celebrity’s life - not escape from visibility, but a different form of legacy.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Faltskog, Agnetha. (2026, February 16). I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child, I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-always-had-strong-maternal-instincts-even-135436/
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Faltskog, Agnetha. "I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child, I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow." FixQuotes. February 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-always-had-strong-maternal-instincts-even-135436/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child, I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-always-had-strong-maternal-instincts-even-135436/. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.



