Aging parents Quote by Joan Acocella

“Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated.Children come back from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from…

— Anne Frank

“Children left their old parents at home and scattered in all directions in search of money. It was hard on an old woman with…

— Chinua Achebe

Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the…

— Florence King

“Did other people’s mothers vanish into holes in the ground during their midlife crises?”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“The whole notion of the nursing home was something dreamed up by people like my mother; American women with sunglasses, always searching for their…

— David Sedaris

“we are prisoners of the story we tell about ourselves, the story of the parents descended from poor immigrants who made it good and…

— Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.

— Anonymous

Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

— Roz Chast

“that’s the hallmark of a true southerner. Family bonds.”

— Juliette Poe

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A…

— Florence King

“Children who bring their children to visit us in nursing homes. We go on about how it used to be—the extinct and glorious slowness…

— Blake Crouch

“She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~”

— Susan Wiggs