It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.
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Quotes tagged ‘Parenthood’
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
Nobody asks to be born. No one signs a form that says, You have my permission to make me exist. Babies are born, because parents feel that they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fi…
Having given birth and run marathons? I now know I can do anything physically.
As any mother will attest, the instinct to look after our children stays with us long after they need our attention.
Raising children is saving the world, one child at a time.
I didn’t treat my own youngsters like frail flowers, and I think no parent should.
You think you're a selfless person, and then you realize you're not. These little people come around, and they require so much, and your schedule is really not your own, nor is it important anymore, and it's very clear that it's your life now revolving around this dude. I'm not that person who feels…
The hard things are the ones that are most worth doing.
Every piece of me unquestionably knows that being a dad is vitally important.
Ultimately, Hank, I think a big part of being a parent is being around.
A real mother throws her heart over the fence and then climbs after it.
Never be afraid to reach for the stars because even if you fall, you'll always be wearing a Parent-chute.
I used to like people more, but now I have children and that changes your life in a lot of ways. Like you spend time with people you never would have chosen to spend time with, not in a million years. I spend whole days with people, I’m like, ‘I never would have hung out with you. I didn’t choose yo…
With kids it's so funny because they're not strong enough to kill you. But they want to kill you so bad.
I thought for a long time I wasn’t a good enough dad for you because you didn’t like me. It’s only now I realize that I don’t need you to like me, I need you to obey me because I’m your dad and I do know better.
We talk about ‘loving one’s child’ as if a child were a mystical unicorn. Ninety-eight percent of American parents secretly feel that if you have not had and raised a child, your capacity for love is somehow diminished. Ninety-eight percent of American parents secretly believe that non-parents canno…
Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother’s Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.
And yes, it’s important that their dad is a feminist, because now that’s what they expect of all men.
There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.