Allison Pearson Quotes

Real men change diapers!

As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it's just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.

Women should do kitchen work and take care of babies.

We have to start spreading that news - that real men change poopy diapers and coach the soccer team and let their daughters paint toenails all kinds of colours.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.

My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever job I have than the relationships I have. Now, if I had considered my job to be a wife and mother, then I would have been pretty good at it. But I didn't consider it a job. I thought it was like brushing your teeth - it's not fun, it's just something you do to keep your teeth from falling out.

But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?

A stay-at-home mom is a working mom. Being a stay-at-home mom is a job.

Sometimes, having a mom stay home is a big help. On the other hand, when a mother works outside the home, her husband generally does more child care and has higher parental knowledge about his childrens' friends, routines, and needs, cutting across the tendency for fathers to be second-string parents at home.

I did not want to take a troop. I was the mother of a little boy. I knew nothing about little girls.

I just don't believe that a woman is naturally closer to her child than a man. Not at all.

Mum was a teacher before I was born, but never worked after she had kids. She was too busy looking after us and making kedgeree.

I was an at-home father, taking care of them for seven years when they were babies. I was one of those new-age, at-home dads.

If someone would ask me to choose between TV and films, I would go for TV. I am content with it. Also, I have a family and a son to look after. A mother needs to be there with the child.

You have to remember: the wife been home all day cleaning asses and feeding faces. Sometimes the opposite.

Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.