“After my mother died I was sick in my soul for that greater meaning of home that we understand
Continue reading “Anna Quindlen Quote ~ Death”Peg Bracken Quote ~ Mothers
Mothers always think they work too hard or not hard enough. Peg Bracken quote. Painting by Anna Bilinska.
Peg Bracken Quote ~ Parents
“Many children consider their parents to be a little dim…” Donna Schuster art.
Carol Burnett Quote ~ Birth
“Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.” Elizabeth Nourse art.
Joan Didion Quote ~ Journals
“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
Beatric E. Parsons art.
Mignon McLaughlin Quote ~ Morality
“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.” Art by Aage Lund.
Catherine Wallace Quote ~ Listen
“Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, not matter what. If you don’t listen
Continue reading “Catherine Wallace Quote ~ Listen”Anne Lamott Quote ~ Books
“This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.” August Toulmouche art.
Anna Quindlen Quote ~ Children
“This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends; by sitting in the driver’s seat and keeping quiet.” Mary Cassatt painting.