673 Quotes About Parenthood

In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the time of the First World War.

My mind was curiously blank. It was the blankness of obedience. With the unerring instinct of children, I had surmised what my parents wanted from me. They wanted me to stay the way I was. [434]

So he thinks he has a baby and everything falls into place? What gets me is, people have babies and they're thinking what the baby will do for them. It's sick.

Yeah, I guess I am a sadistic piece of shit. What can you do? What else is there to do? My grandfathers were Soviet officers in Germany. They were Men. Now what is my Father? he's a little bitch who ran away from Russia in 1998. What's his fate? Well. He's gonna get fucked in the ASS with so many different things, you can't even imagine.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

We’re not dependent on men to drag a bloody deer into the cave any more. But they can’t make babies without us. They need us, and they hate being reminded of it.

I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

Anyone can dig a ditch. There's no way to dig smarter. Or dig faster. Having a baby is like being assigned to dig a ditch. That goes all the way to the horizon.

I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers.