Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be. ”

Jasmine - it brings back memories of India with my parents. ”

My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers. ”

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. ”

As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all the stuff that has to get done in the course of a day. When the children are asleep in their beds, I can go where I really need to go in my head. ”

I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression on me. ”

I would never presume to give anyone advice. ”

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime. ”

Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year. ”

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake. ”