Megan Follows Quotes

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.

I have a daughter, Catherine, aged 30. I have a 9-year-old son, Nathaniel, a 7-year-old son, Ridley, and a 6-year-old daughter, Truma. I'm 68. The age gap between the younger kids and me is not something I think about much because I feel physically about like I did when I was 40, or at least, I think I do.

Having children is what a woman is born for, really.

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

I believe that all women should have children. I think women are made to have children and to be mothers. I also think women have to have an identity outside the home.

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

It is the patriotic duty of women to bear four children.

I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.

I want a daughter no matter what.

I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.

I always had musicians in my band having children, and their wives were the ones at home taking care of the kids. So I never thought much of it. And then suddenly I'm the parent, but I'm the woman, and it's like, 'Ah, what happens now?'

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

I'm too young to have kids, but I really want to be a mom. I don't know if it's a Latin thing, but I love kids.

I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt.

I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.