Chirlane McCray Quotes

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

It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.

Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

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

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

When you have children, that's your main focus.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day.

Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.