Ruby Wax Quotes

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

I am really bad at being a mom. I think it's hard for me to be a mom. I do my best. I am not the poster child for being a mother, I will say that. I wish I was.

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard.

I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum.

Being a parent can be overwhelming at times, but it's something we're figuring out as we go.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

I never turned down a mother role.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!

It is always fragile, being a parent.

I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.