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There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

—Adrienne Rich

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Having kids did not fix me. I was not somehow more whole, less botched-up, or more certain just because I had a kid. . . . I was still me, with all my holes and problems and questions — only now I was also exhausted and had a lot more laundry to do.

—Jerusalem Jackson Greer

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Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

—Harold S. Hulbert

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Maybe . . . children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence — so that child, in turn, craves something else.

—Laura Moriarty

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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

—Frederick Douglass

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My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

—Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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Your mother and I have been a complete failure financially but if the boys turn out to be good and useful citizens nothing else matters and we know this is happening so why not be jubilant?

—LeRoy Pollock, in a letter to his son, painter Jackson Pollock

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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children, the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best, after all.

—Dr. Benjamin Spock

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Like most people who have had one baby, I am an expert on everything and will tell you, unsolicited, how to raise your kid.

—Tina Fey

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Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.

—Anne Lamott

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We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.

—Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

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Once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.

—Haruki Murakami

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When our wounds cease to be a source of shame and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers. . . . Our own experience with loneliness, depression, and fear can become a gift. . . . Our own bandaged wounds will allow us to listen to others with our whole beings.

—Henri J.M. Nouwen

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I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.

—Hillel the Elder

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