27 Quotes by Andrea Yates

There are two tragedies, ... One is my children and the other is my wife.

the primary emphasis is on care and not security.

severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this -- that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that aren't real and believe things that aren't real, and act in that distorted reality.

She loved our kids, ... kind, gentle person.

One side of me blames her because she did it, but the other side says she didn't because that wasn't her.

If they drop charges against her, then she'd go to a mental hospital and then the doctors would decide when she's well enough to go home, ... They've treated her like a serial killer, and my feeling all along has been it's a waste of the taxpayers' money to prosecute her.

I'd be the first in line to help the jury.

because she was having depression from having kids.

If it hadn't been by drowning while we were gone, it would have been smothering them at night or poisoning them at breakfast,