The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

—Heather Armstrong

About Heather Armstrong

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Heather Brooke Armstrong (née Hamilton; July 19, 1975 – May 9, 2023) was an American blogger and internet personality from Salt Lake City, Utah, who began writing under the pseudonym Dooce. She was best known for her website dooce.com, which peaked at nearly 8.5 million monthly readers in 2004 before...

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Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.

—Heather Armstrong

He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it.

—Heather Armstrong

People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.

—Heather Armstrong

More quotations tagged with “parents”

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

—Ellen Goodman

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

—Elain Heffner

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.

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

—Chuck Palahniuk

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