Bad-parenting-skills Quote by Ruth Downie

“Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, "Speaking of war, I never raised you to be always fighting and killing. That's not woman's…

— Tamora Pierce

“Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as…

— Brandon Sanderson

“She may not be a mighty warrior, but one thing she’d learned after observing her mother, was that if anything could fell a warrior,…

— Maya Banks

“And what can a simple girl do? (Henry) I was told, by my father, of St. Mary of Aragon who single-handedly brought down an…

— Kinley MacGregor

“Her mother told her she could grow up to be anything she wanted to be, so she grew up to become the strongest of…

— Nikita Gill

“Nina stared at the woman who had raised her and saw the truth at last. Her mother was a lioness. A warrior. A woman…

— Kristin Hannah

“Even in the little while she'd been teaching, she'd met parents who didn't seem to care about their children, regarding them as more of…

— Nicholas Sparks

“If she had learnt any lesson today it was that men were stupid, helpless creatures made needlessly cruel by their terror of showing their…

— Jayne Bauling

“Mina gave a fake laugh. “An old journal from high school. Thought it would be funny. Mostly it’s boring and juvenile, boys, dances, catty…

— Kate Whitaker

“Her unusual upbringing had made her worldly enough to understand that every female, no matter her genus and species, had the ability to physically…

— Delilah Marvelle

“As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked.”

— Terry Pratchett

Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard…

— Donna Tartt