Parenting Quotes by Jodi Picoult

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

— Jodi Picoult

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

— Jodi Picoult

“I had to learn how to be a mother before I realized how lucky I am to be a child.”

— Jodi Picoult

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

— Jodi Picoult

Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.

— Jodi Picoult

“Following my mother's footsteps was the surest way out.”

— Jodi Picoult

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

— Jodi Picoult

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

— Jodi Picoult

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer…

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“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”

— Jodi Picoult

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell…

— Jodi Picoult

“The bond between a mother and a child weighed nothing on a scale; it took up no room in a test tube.…

— Jodi Picoult

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

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My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring…

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I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted…

— Jodi Picoult

If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you…

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and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the…

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“My father looked right at me, but he didn't answer. And his eyes were dazed and staring through me, like I was…

— Jodi Picoult

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand…

— Jodi Picoult

Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they…

— Jodi Picoult

“My mother and Joe have a lovers' shorthand, an economy of gestures that comes when you are close enough to someone to…

— Jodi Picoult

Where did you go?" "To the end of the driveway," my mother says. "I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum…

— Jodi Picoult

“Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google…

— Jodi Picoult

I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our…

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There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death…

— Jodi Picoult

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a…

— Jodi Picoult

“What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "To make me forget . . . that you forgot about me?"…

— Jodi Picoult

The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets…

— Jodi Picoult

“Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on…

— Jodi Picoult

“She had smiled her way through the births and had offered the new mothers the support and the medical care that they…

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“It has taken me twenty-eight years to be able to admit that I'm glad I did not know my mother until now.…

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“Corazon smiled at him. "You know how your mother keeps her Christmas card list? How she sends to people who send her…

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“It's not politically correct to say that you love one child more than you love your others. I love all of my…

— Jodi Picoult

“When did they stop putting toys in cereal boxes? When I was little, I remember wandering the cereal aisle (which surely is…

— Jodi Picoult

“Everyone would remember Peter for nineteen minutes of his life, but what about the other nine million? Lacy would be the keeper…

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“When I was tiny, the county fair came through town. Our parents took us, and got tickets for the rides, even though…

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“When I first met Cara, she was twelve and angry at the world. Her parents had split up, her brother was gone,…

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“the body, trying to rouse her mother. She”

— Jodi Picoult

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

— Jodi Picoult

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

— Jodi Picoult