Alice Walker Quotes

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

All our children are grown up and have their own lives.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

I love the complication of the kids in the characters' lives. I love that these two people are very capable in all these ways. They're so trained. They're kind of deadly. They're smart and vicious at times, but I love that they're undone by a teenager, like we all are. We're all incensed and undone by the ungratefulness of a child, and I love that it matters so greatly to them, in a way that it matters to every parent. Teenagers are going to do that no matter where you live or who you are.

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.

There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

When I started to write 'Crazy Thing Called Love,' I wanted a conflict that would not only bring Billy and Maddy together in terms of proximity and give them a common goal but that would also drive a wedge between them. And nothing fit the bill quite like the arrival of some children.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I, for one, love kids in my romance novels. When done right, kids add so much conflict. Not just of the 'interruption on the way to the bedroom' variety. But conflict about commitment and insecurity.

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

I ran away from home when I was a senior in high school, and it came out of all the conflicts that happen between parents and their children who can't communicate.