#Parents

"It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are."

"My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable."

"Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way."

"Both of my parents have great senses of humor."

"My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way."

"I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids."

"But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone."

"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

"My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education."

"Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?"

"You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor."

"A criança ao nascer já traz um determinado potencial; são os pais, no entanto, que podem torná-la capaz de realizar esse potencial"

"When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys."

"Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess."

"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something."

"The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'"

"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."