Family

To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way.

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

As goes the family, so goes the faith; as goes the faith, so goes the culture.

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

My most important title is still “mom-in-chief.” My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect - for our families and our friends, for each other - when the funny thing was, we didn't have to. In the end, we were better than that.

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

When people give me a compliment, I just look back and smile, as I am just a glimpse of both my father's. Both earthly and heavenly.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

I’m not trying to—What do teenagers say nowadays?” he asked my grandmother.“Get all up in her biznez,” Nana said.Without cracking a smile.“That’s right,” he replied. “We’re not trying to get all up in your biznez, Ali.

I'm one of those people who had Christmas and my birthday always combined, and generally, my birthday was pretty much ignored. But my parents are always good about making some kind of special effort to make me feel like I also have a birthday that exists.

The feeling of 'turning into your dad' is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.

A grandmother’s love is selfless all the way to the bones.

Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

My greatest blessings are my life, my children and my family.