I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until…

I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that…

— Joyce Maynard

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

— Doris Lessing

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

— Paullina Simons

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best…

— Anne Lamott

My mother made all of our clothes, my friends' mothers made all of their clothes. This was the Depression.

— Rosalynn Carter

I am a champion. My mom made sure that I did yoga every day. She dragged me because that was something she was doing…

— Rajashree Choudhury

When I was younger, I always saw my friends with their mothers and fathers and felt a little jealous of them for having a…

— Gabriel Jesus

I cheated on my wife for years. Had children with different mothers.

— Nigel Benn

I call the years when our children are between six and twelve the "golden years," not because everything's perfect . . . but because…

— Vicki Lansky

“Children" Years back here we were children and at the stage of running in gangs about the meadows-- here to this one, there to…

— Robert Lowell

“Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now…

— Carson McCullers

So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have…

— Joan Lunden

We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the…

— Hippolyte Taine

“For a few years when we were children, I was the taller one, even though I was almost a year younger.”

— Anonymous

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?

— Phil Donahue