Parenting Quote by Stephanie Julian

“It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“She was a thinking child, and worked this out. It hurt her, unlike most knowledge, which was strength and pleasure.”

— A.S. Byatt

“He said she needed to learn how to take pleasure in every section of the cycle of life.”

— Glenna Sinclair

“One of the reasons dad was so pleased was because it did something to her.”

— Ian Cross

“It was good for her though, to submit to things that weren’t for her pleasure, but his.”

— Annabel Joseph

“It was a profound pleasure to her not to know what was coming next, provided some one whom she loved did.”

— George MacDonald

“Parents, she thought, learned to survive touching their children less and less.”

— Celeste Ng

“She would never, she thought, be allowed to enjoy a moments pleasure without an eternity of pain.”

— Tonya Hurley

“She used to think that only parents can understand the sort of love that swallows you up, but now she wondered whether it was…

— Paula Hawkins

“Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“I had the strong sensation that I'd underestimated my parents and their devotion to me. Of course they'd be on my side, whether they…

— Bill Konigsberg

“Mothering, she learned the hard way, was about loss as well as love.”

— Attica Locke