Elle Varner Quotes

You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage.

Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father did not care a whit whether I liked him, and it would have been unthinkable for him to pick up my stuff. There were rules in the house, and they were enforced.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child.

I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.

My sisters take, like, hours to get ready, and I'm, like, really quick. I think I get that from my dad.

My mother was a disciplinarian. She believed that when young girls start to go out with young boys, they get married.

If, later on, my daughter wants to be in a girl group, then I think I am going to oppose.

After my mother died, I learned that she'd had a scholarship to the University of Nebraska, but - in kind of a tradition that females don't do things like that - her father prevented her from going. She always said that she wasn't allowed to go to college, but until she died, I never knew that she'd had this scholarship.

Some days my husband Derek and I barely have time for a conversation about anything apart from the business of life - who's picking up who and who's cooking dinner.

I didn't want to be the aunt where you come over and can't sit on the sofa.

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

How am I supposed to be a mom to two kids, a wife and do a show every night? It's impossible!

I usually have to be home by 10 o'clock and my mom takes my computer away at 10.30pm every night.

We can't have iPads until after 7 p.m. Otherwise the entire day is, "iPad time? What about now?" It makes me crazy. And no TV on weekend mornings.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You've unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else.

My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Man, they have loose morals, really. Men, women, I'm just saying that it gets weird on Sunday night. No, that's sadly never happened.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

My son is 21. He'll be 22 if I let him.