A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. —Elain Heffner More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “parents” There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it. —Dick Cavett More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. —Chuck Palahniuk More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. —Bern Williams More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. —Barbara Schapiro More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it. —Dick Cavett More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. —Chuck Palahniuk More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. —Bern Williams More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. —Barbara Schapiro More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email