Children Quote by Barbara Delinsky

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

— Ruby Wax

“She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult . Even cats managed…

— Terry Pratchett

The greatest thing she'd learned over the years is that there's no way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be…

— Anonymous

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to…

— Natalie Merchant

My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's…

— Idina Menzel

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an…

— Antonia Fraser

My mother has been very instrumental in shaping up my career. Whatever I am today is because of her. Because I didn't have a…

— Rashami Desai

She had to play the role of mother and father at the same time, and she did it to perfection. I managed to find…

— Kaya Scodelario

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for…

— Gloria Steinem

She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let…

— Kristin Hannah

It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.

— Monica Bellucci

My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.

— Ashley Jensen