Parenthood Quote by Janelle Brown

“until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”

— Jodi Picoult

“At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe,…

— Kelly Corrigan

“But just as no one really knows what it is like to be a mother until she holds her first child, no one who…

— Gregg Olsen

“As a parent? My fear is that when we die, we'll have to watch all those moments in our lives when we were short-tempered…

— Will Ferguson

“Parenthood is shit, snot, slime, fear, tears, spit, and spills. It’s as intense as combat, which is to say hours of tedium relieved by…

— Scott Simon

“She had learned long ago that no matter how difficult it was to see your child struggling for air, you could not breathe for…

— Jodi Picoult

“In childbirth grief begins.”

— Euripides

“Yeah, I usually breathe. It comes sort of naturally to me. If I forget, asphyxiation’s a handy reminder.”

— Jody Gehrman

“Remember! To breathe is vital and your birth right, not a chore.”

— Heidi M. Morrison (Heidi Morrison Teachings

“You don't tolerate parenthood. You don't survive it. You grow with it.”

— Michael Baron

“Not a second has passed since she had children without her feeling like a bad mother. For everything. For not understanding, for being impatient,…

— Fredrik Backman

“Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. If you remembered what new parenthood was actually like you wouldn’t go around lying to people…

— Michael Lewis