Ali Landry Quotes

I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

When you have girl children they torture you!

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.

Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.

I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

I'm thinking that a boy would just be easier to take care of, you know? You don't have to worry about the weaves and the lipsticks and that kinda stuff.

Fathers, for the first time, we have no clue what we're doing. I had no idea when I became a father.

I think women with children are better than men. This is only my opinion. Might be 'cos me Mum brought me up. I think maternally, they just take to being a parent quicker than men.

I would love to be a dad. There are plenty of comedians who have kids. But they're dads. Being a dad is so different from being a mom.

We know that fathers find asking for help harder than mothers.

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, "Can you believe what she did with such-and-such?" at school.

Mom used to say that having three boys was kind of like having a pet tornado that talked back.

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father.

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.

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.

I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.

claims about what's 'natural' have long been used to reinforce traditional gender roles and values. ... Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.

Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men.

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.