#parenthood

Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It’s everything. (Confessions of a Scary Mommy, Gallery Books 2012). ↗

— Jill Smokler

#parenting #beauty

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#feeding #hand #more #nothing #parenthood

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#desire #even #intention #object #only

When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword) ↗

— John Irving

#imagination #parenthood #death

If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#anesthetic #behind #benevolence #birth #birth control

These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of 'targeting' African-American children, they care about you only while you're in the womb. The minute you crown, you're on your own. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#accuse #african-american #american children #care #children

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies. ↗

— Clive Owen

#come #cool #family #first #i

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#apart #argument #before #child #convincing

Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood. ↗

— Bev Perdue

#mitt romney #obama #parenthood #planned #planned parenthood

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#greatest #parenthood #preserve #remains #single