Diane Abbott Quotes

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.

It is very tough to bring up a child on your own.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

I never worried about raising a kid on my own.

Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

I like the idea of a family, but I don't know that I'd like to be a single mum.

Having a baby on my own is a dream come true, but in my world, there's no sheepish spouse on his way home from a work trip to offer me a stretch of alone time.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

Raising George Walker was not easy.

I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was working offshore on the oil rigs. It was a life for which I wasn't prepared.

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

I was raised by a single mother.

I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

My mom was a single parent.