Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

No one realizes how hard parenthood is. I am not saying going into the office is easy. It's not. But parenthood, as fun as it is, is not for the fainthearted.

I can feel the gradual decline of energy and vitality. And I mean generally, every year, when you know you are not on the same level as last year. But that's life.

As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.

(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

You get old, you slow down.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.

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.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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

Everyone says that when you have kids, you become crazy.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

I think all parents have a double life.

I had babies later in life, and it's harder for me. You don't realize how often you're picking them up, and then your back goes out. You need the energy.

As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!

Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.