parenting Quotes

In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself without imagining she will ever do away with her children.

I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempestuous relationship with my dad when she was young, and that was gripping and sometimes upsetting.

Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.