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Children Quotes by Ayelet Waldman
- The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and…
- I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to…
- By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego…
- Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I…
- I love my husband more than I love my children,
- If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can…
- It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children.…
- I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions…
- I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know…
- I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants…
- I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms.…
- Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But…
- My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got…
- Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband…
- Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail…
- So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary.…
- When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used…
- Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them…
- A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto…
- I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school.…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the… — Frederick Lenz
- A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits… — Ezra Taft Benson
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster