Parenting Quote by Jodi Picoult

“I realized how much it must suck to be a parent. You devote everything to your kids, who just end up growing up and…

— Sara Taylor

“It stung, the notion that my child belonged more to her mother than to me, but I learned to accept it.”

— Shulem Deen

“Do you think I want to spend my life with a man who could so easily abandon his own child? What if we did…

— Jude Deveraux

“There are lots of things sons shouldn’t imagine about their mothers, above all what it was like to become one.”

— Bauvard

“Yes, I am his mother—I can say that now—for only after I released myself from my own expectations of motherhood did I realize that…

— Hope Jahren

“If motherhood doesn't interest you, don't do it. It didn't interest me, so I didn't do it. Anyway, I would have made a terrible…

— Katharine Hepburn

“Today in an auditorium full of parents my son scanned the room looking for me. When he saw me his face lit up the…

— Rachel Marie Martin

“Aside from the fact that you’re not my son, and I’m not a woman, do you think I’m a good mother?”

— Jarod Kintz

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose.

— Mitch Albom

“I walked out of his room sure I'd said the right thing maybe not as a father but as a Dad. I'd said the…

— Steven Herrick

“I’d had this idea that my birth mother was waiting for me to get in touch, and that we’d have this fantastic reunion. When…

— Adele Abbott