Death Quote by Kimberly McCreight

“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

“underscores the fact that parents’ fears are well founded. The numbers don’t lie, and there are too many of them to ignore or dismiss…

— Richard Bromfield

“Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss.”

— Richard Beck

“In countless cases, parenthood has been the worst attempt to contribute something positive to the world.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Pretty straightforwardly, the more categories of adversities a child suffers, the dimmer his or her chances of a happy, functional adulthood.45”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...”

— Jeannette Walls

“The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children ourweigh our fears”

— Ellen Goodman

“Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once.…

— Jill Smokler

“The loss of an only child is the worst pain anyone can endure. After all, what do our parents live for? With thee best…

— Durjoy Datta

“A considerable part of parenting is pretending moods that you do not entirely feel.”

— Gin Phillips

“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

“That’s the horror, the most awful thing: to have a child the world wants to destroy and know that you’re helpless to help him.…

— Matt Ruff