Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.
Parents Quotes
In everything I do – I am a total product of them. (speaking of her parents – her mother, a suffragette who picketed before the White House for better working conditions for women, and her father, a physician who with his wife was an avid promoter of birth control)
The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved, the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
I don’t always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hop up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raised poodles.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
We refused to assume – one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good and bad, right and wrong, and to take the consequences of what might turn out to be a lifetime battle.
