Parenting Quote by Lisa Unger Download Open image ““Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.”” — Lisa Unger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Parenting
“What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence and to… — Debbie McGowan Copy Share Image
“...she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Yes, her childlessness was a fugue in itself, a flight- this was the habitual theme she was trying now to resist- a flight from… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She thought of mothering, which was really another word for being present and caring what happened to someone.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters.” — Truddi Chase Copy Share Image
“...and she thought she understood, for the first time, the strange and terrible power a parent has over a child's happiness, and also how… — Meg Mitchell Moore Copy Share Image
“Her failure to demand her needs, losing all of her years, sacrificing herself on the altar of motherhood to a son who saved himself… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“It was Mom whom I could not live without. Fathers, I was convinced, could not replicate the emotional security and nurturing that mothers provided.” — Leslie Gilbert-Lurie Copy Share Image
“When they’re small, they’re part of you, on you in bed, showering with you, climbing onto your lap, holding on to your leg. Slowly,… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“We hate our parents for having their own lives, don’t we, for making decisions for themselves that don’t seem to take us into account.… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“Depression is not dramatic, but it is total. It’s sneaky - you almost don’t notice it at first. Like a cat burglar, it comes… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“...in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“We have more patience for girls who act like boys than boys who act like girls. A tomboy is considered cute. One day she’ll… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away.… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
“William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of… — Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974 Copy Share Image
“As members of the Church, there are things you cannot do. For one, you cannot take a Las Vegas-style vacation. I do not know… — William Grant Bangerter Copy Share Image
“That’s all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
