"How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing."
Joyce Rachelle
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
James Baldwin
"If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the ay a man might work for the right to have a family, children might grow up without the burden of gratitude for the gift of life which they never asked for."
Germaine Greer
"I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'."
Eamonn Walker
"My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty."
Lewis Black
"Don’t even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years."
Brandon Shire
"Every child needs a father. Even if he turns out to be Darth Vader."
Jackson Radcliffe
"The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready."
Nancy E. Turner
"It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them."
Anonymous
"What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken."
Natalia Ginzburg
"Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages."
Daniel Goleman
"...If I were an angel of the Lord, I would mark the doors of each of my children's homes with an X, so that plague and misfortune would pass over them. Alas, I lack the qualifications. So when there was still world and time enough I fretted. I nagged. I corrected. I got everything wrong."
Mordecai Richler
"One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family."
Jonathan Safran Foer
"I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad."
Luke Evans
"When one has not had a good father one must create one."
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