Jen Kirkman Quotes

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.

I would love to be a dad. There are plenty of comedians who have kids. But they're dads. Being a dad is so different from being a mom.

On a deeper level, if our sons are learning they are obscene, disgusting, and untrustworthy, is this the best preparation for fatherhood? And is it the best preparation for becoming a mother - to feel this way about her son?

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

If you have kids and stuff what kind of dad do I wanna be for my kids, and what kind of mom do I want them to have

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to be raised differently than my brother and sister were. My parents went through the whole sixties rebellion with my brother and sister. But I didn't feel like I had to rebel because I didn't have anyone telling me I couldn't do something. I never went into that parents-as-enemies stage.

Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a female can enjoy. A father shares in that experience, knowing that he caused it to happen.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

When children are little, they really need you in one way. When they're bigger, they need you as a friend. And balancing motherhood and career makes you both a better mother and a better businesswoman.

We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.'

Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person's nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: "No, I'm a person. You can't fix my underpants on the subway."

I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work. As a nursing mother, I couldn’t sit there and just pump all day. I needed to be close to my baby.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.