Jeanne Phillips Quotes

I'm not the healer.

For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.

There are only four kinds of people in the world - those who have been caregivers, those who are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers.

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

I say you play a part, you don't work one.

The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick.

Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.

I know that is what I was put on Earth to do - to be a mother.

People look to me for guidance or responsibility. People put a lot of stuff on me as a symbol of something, which is nothing I opted into, but it's a responsibility I take seriously regardless.

I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.

My first and most important job is being a mommy.

Big people take care of little people; we must live up to that trust.

I look after two people - my wife and my son.

I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. "I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

I issued a number of denials to people I thought needed to hear them

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

That was the one thing I had going for me. Taking care of your family.

Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

It's nice to have people who will feel guilty for you.

So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there's a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.

Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we’re doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.