Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education. ”

You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children. ”

I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes. ”

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering. ”

When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual. ”

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name. ”

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves. ”

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility. ”

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give. ”

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children. ”