“until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”

— Jodi Picoult

Variant: 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
Source: Vanishing Acts

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Robin Wasserman (1978) American writer of speculative fiction for young people

Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow

“Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

Source: Faithless

“I don't crop. Photography is like diamond cutting. If you miss you miss. There is no difference with painting. If you don't cut you have to accept the whole image. You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.”

Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) American artist

1980's, I don't necessarily desire a perfect photography,' 1981

“Some things you don't need until they leave you, they're the things that you miss”

Rob Thomas (1972) American singer

"Bright Lights" (from the Matchbox Twenty album More Than You Think You Are)

“If you held your fire until you were very close, you seldom missed.”

Douglas Bader (1910–1982) British World War II flying ace

Mackenzie 2008 p. 39.
Lucas 1981, p. 95.

“You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Interview with Julius Lester, "James Baldwin: Reflections of a Maverick" in The New York Times (27 May 1984)
Variant: You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.