Marianne Lake Quotes

Having a baby on my own is a dream come true, but in my world, there's no sheepish spouse on his way home from a work trip to offer me a stretch of alone time.

I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

I was divorced when my children were young, so I was a single mother for a while. It's so hard to have to do every little thing yourself and be forced to navigate the rocky emotions of motherhood alone.

It is very tough to bring up a child on your own.

It’s funny – my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you’re doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

I was a single mother when my child was little.

It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

To all you mothers out there who are raising your children alone either by choice or necessity, don't let anyone tell you you're not a family.

Bringing up children on my own was quite a busy time.

There are so many single moms and dads out there, and we are all just trying to pick up the pieces together. It's hard.

Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

I was a single mom.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

Why is it braver to be a single mother versus being with a partner? Being in a couple and having a child could be more challenging because there might be conflict if the male partner cannot understand the extreme attachment a woman feels when she has a child.

My mom was a single parent.

I feel like a semi-single mum.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.