Life Quote by Victor LaValle

“You stay home and raise daughters, who grow up and get jobs and then feel pity for you, their stay-at-home mothers.”

— Noah Hawley

“Work and money are not luxuries, and your children benefit in countless ways by having a proud, successful, financially comfortable mother. Go earn, and…

— Emma Johnson

“People are not poor because they’ve made bad choices, my mother liked to say, they make bad choices because they’re poor.”

— Zadie Smith

“carrying laborer to teacher and manager. It seems a bittersweet result of the family’s loss that the remaining children had managed to lift themselves…

— Saroo Brierley

“Maybe the idea of the supposed tension between working and nonworking mothers had been put out in the world just to cause divisiveness.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“I used to wonder why... Mum kept having babies... that was the only pleasure poor people could afford . It cost nothing--at least at…

— Margaret Powell

“Is the working mother selfish ?”

— Anonymous

“I remember saying to my mother, ‘Why do you have so many children? Is it hard to have children?’ And she said, ‘Oh, no.…

— Margaret Powell

“To raise a child is to submit to a staggering amount of work, much of which is deeply unpleasant. It would be crazy to…

— Jonathan V. Last

“The blaming of mothers for earning their living and neglecting their duties became a well-established principle. The fact that women had earned their living…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Children left their old parents at home and scattered in all directions in search of money. It was hard on an old woman with…

— Chinua Achebe

“That's a parents' job, isn't it? To raise a child strong enough to leave and break our hearts?”

— Beth Groundwater