#rent

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#baby #blues #comes #get #like

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#i #list #myself #never #over

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#divorce #divorces #four #i #marriage

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different. ↗

— Jerry Springer

#even #go #least #matter #news

Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one. ↗

— Mary Bono

#assets #currently #earn #loved #only

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary. ↗

— Victor Borge

#i #i wish #making #necessary #parents

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#apparently #delight #heaven #long #men

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply. ↗

— T. Berry Brazelton

#care #deeply #make #mistakes #parents

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#adequately #clause #excessive #infliction #inherent

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#constitution #current #justices #only #read