"Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies..."
- Betty Friedan
"To be in your children's memories tomorrow,You have to be in their lives today."
- Barbara Johnson
"Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are."
- Cheryl Lacey Donovan
"I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing t..."
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley
"If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape char..."
- Jane Clayson Johnson
"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires."
- Dorothy Parker
"Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God."
- Scott Dikkers
"A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?"
- Stephen Colbert
"Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up."
- Ray Romano
"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe wi..."
- Neil Gaiman