Martha Nussbaum Quotes

Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.

You make certain assumptions as a parent. And you kind of think, at a certain point, you've figured things out. And then all of a sudden, that person that you raised and nurtured and thought that you knew is someone else completely.

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.

Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?

What matters now is the well-being of our kids.

It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.

Siddhant has received a perfect upbringing from his mother and it's up to me now to continue on the same track. But I must say that it's definitely not possible for a father to play the role of a dad and mom simultaneously.

When you have responsible children, half the battle is over. So, you don't have to worry. But you are concerned. The concern will never go, and you'll always be conscious about them.

I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys.

Taking care of children was not something I was good at.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.

The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.

They [Mark and Jay Duplass] both have young kids and talk about parenting all the time. So they get it. So they knew that it was a very delicate time and they knew that it was a lot. All it did was make me want to protect them from - and protect production from - any kind of burden.

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

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.