#parent

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all? ↗

— Betty Friedan

#feminism #housekeeping #inspirational #marriage #parenting

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of. ↗

— Amy Tan

#both #care #concert #concert pianist #day

Change is a contact sport. ↗

— Romal J. Tune

#education #teenagers-and-parents #teens #youth-motivational-speaker #change

My parents separated when I was younger. ↗

— Tina Turner

#parents #separated #younger

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#begin #children #ever #forgive #judge

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#behavior #being #bind #comes #could

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#apparently #deeply #emotional #heterosexuals #homosexual

So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#another #any #apply #biological #child

There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here. ↗

— Michael P. Anderson

#different ways #done #first #first of all #forget

She has to live, Eliott. I owe her a lifetime of apologies.” “Sometimes I think that’s all we owe our parents. ↗

— Bethany Griffin

#eliott #parents #death