“In reality, pregnancy medical care seemed to be one long list of rules.”— Emily Oster, theatlantic.com
“The debate about breast-feeding takes place without any reference to its actual context in women’s lives.”— Hanna Rosin, theatlantic.com
“Since I had my first child I’ve learned that worrying about what people consider 'selfish' in mothers is a huge waste of time.”— Claire Zulkey, mom.me
“Well, that’s one of the nice things about holding the purse strings. Eventually the children come around to seeing things your way.”— Groucho Marx, amazon.com
“Sometimes I think, like, let's just run away from Hollywood and adopt a son, and do my own thing. But then I realize, you know what? I want to make at least another billion dollars before I adopt children so I can just focus on them. Like, just move to an island and give them everything.”— Tila Tequila, tvguide.com
“You know, this is bullshit. Absolute bullshit! No, you are bullshit! Your father has nothing to show for his life because he alienated his fucking kids and you're doing the same.”— Julia Brownwell, Jocelyn Gaines, Jasmin Walker, imdb.com
“I call it 'Newton's Third Law of Child Rearing: For every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy.”— Dan Brown, amazon.com
“I think kids are very impressionable and, whether you like it or not, you become impressed upon by your parents.”— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com
“When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.”— Brigham Young, goodreads.com
“Mama says to me, 'Being an actor is fine, but what are you going to do for a living?' I took my mother to the premiere of The Dirty Dozen and she said, 'It's disgraceful!' I asked her how she liked my role and she said, 'You were ridiculous!'”— Telly Savalas, m.imdb.com
“Mother prepared me to live in the world, but she didn't try to make me into a social being just so I could hang out with other teenagers at the lake, or have pajama parties with other girls. Her eyes were on a bigger prize - giving me the skills and nurturing the talents that would allow me to gradu…”— Temple Grandin, amazon.com
“The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we…”— Bob Uecker, books.google.com