Charlaine Harris Quotes

My children are my priority and always have been.

My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.

Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but I cannot remember one hour in which her children needed her and did not find her.

I urge all children to listen to their mothers and fathers. My mom was helping out some kids and she didn't want to call me for all of the money; she only wanted to take care of some of the kids.

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.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

If you're going to send the mothers out into the work force, what are you going to do about the children they leave at home?

When are we going to make parenting a national priority?

I'm there to support my kids no matter what happens. I just do the best I can, just like anybody else would for their family.

I am a believer that if you bring children into this world, then you have a responsibility to do your best and support and guide them until the day you die.

My mother was my greatest fan.

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

The hand of a bride becomes the hand of a mother. Ever so gently she cares for her precious child. Bathing, dressing, feeding, comforting-there is no hand like mother's. Nor does its tender care diminish through the years.

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.

Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that often. Obviously, this is a role parents should fill, and most often the mother can do it best.

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.

There is no one perfect way to be a good mother... Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children... What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else.