Life's Pleasures Quote by Suzanne Vega

Pregnancy gets romanticized as a kind of artisanal creation project: you “make” a baby, you “bond,” you “shape” a life. Suzanne Vega punctures that fantasy with the blunt, bodily rhythm of the sentence: you eat, you sleep, and then suddenly there is a person. The action verbs are comically minimal, almost insulting to the mythology of glowing motherhood. They land like a lyric stripped of ornament, insisting on the strange fact that biology does the heavy lifting while you mostly just endure time.

What makes the quote work is how quickly it pivots from awe to disorientation. “This wonderful child” arrives as a gift, but the gift is also a loss of authorship. Vega’s “you don’t feel like you have any control” isn’t a complaint so much as a confession: parenthood detonates the comforting idea that effort equals outcome. Even the pronoun shift matters. She doesn’t say “the baby”; she says “her,” and then drills down to “her character and who she is.” The fear isn’t about diapers or logistics; it’s existential. A child isn’t a blank canvas, and the parent isn’t the sole writer.

Coming from a musician known for precise storytelling, the line carries an artist’s anxiety about creation: the most intimate thing you “produce” refuses to behave like a work of art. It’s a cultural counterpoint to the pressure on parents - especially mothers - to be managers of destiny. Vega offers a rarer, more honest posture: reverence without illusion, love without the promise of control.