Ruby Wax Quotes

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

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

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it.

I can easily tap into the feeling of being a mother and the feeling of, you always want what's best for your kids. And that's where most parents come from.

No matter how much you love your spouse, you won't love them in the same way you do your baby. It's a different love, and everything changes. You have to figure out how to parent together.

Let's be honest: Parents like me.

Because you give birth, because you impregnate someone, that does not automatically give you that title of mother or father. You earn the title.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

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.

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

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.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

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.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.