Quotes About Support

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

Hearing doctors tell you that you can't get pregnant does not extinguish the hope.

An older sister is a friend and defender — a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Helpful Reminders for Fathers and Other Birth Companions

I learned that if I always performed a rescue, the woman never learned to lean on God…..I now realize that I shouldn't work harder at a person's recovery than she is willing to work.

3.   We're all in this together. If we take care of one another and go the extra mile to appreciate and play together, we all gain—each one of us is lifted up. Sure, we could walk alone to the finish line. But the real joy comes from tackling the journey together, from raising our voices in one mighty, unified wahoo!

We call such a limited number of relationships love in our lives, but there is always love around us—it's as ubiquitous as oxygen.

Several times in my life, I've sat with women, friends of mine, who reveal, sometimes shyly, sometimes proudly, bruises of one kind or another, and I know I've said, "If it happens one time, leave him," I've said, "It doesn't matter how much you love him. Leave him if it happens one time." And I've said it with utter confidence, as if I knew what the hell I was talking about, as if violence was something that could be easily defined.

I still don't see how it would make me feel any better to think of the pain in my hip and spine as anything other than my most loyal and valuable companion, the continuous nonvoice in my ear that says, You got out alive and you still get to go.

Why are we so hard on one another? I wonder. Hadn't the world already given us challenges enough?

There is so little one can be certain of these days . . . But finding a hand to hold while we walk this path makes even the most difficult of times better and the strangest of villages home . . . Once I thought my life was over . . . I never thought I would find happiness again . . . And then I met you and it all changed. You made me believe again that good things were possible. I love you.

But the truth was when it came to grief, each person was an island, alone. She'd learned that the hard way. She had tried to join a war widows group in New York shortly after she had arrived. She'd hoped she would find some connection that would help her break through the wall that seemed to have formed around her heart, but as she sat among those sorry women who had supposedly known what she had gone through, she had never felt more alone.

There is so little one can be certain of these days," he begins, voice wobbly. "But finding a hand to hold while we walk this path

Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhoods.

I'm on a mission to love, give as much as I can, and support people who make a difference.

You don't want to have to be the man and the woman in the relationship. I always say you want a man who can fix the toilet.

I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.

Natalie was going to stay at home, cooking meals, baking pies, and making sure their life together was comfortable. When Zach came home from a hard day's work, she wanted to be there for him, not coping with her own stress and fatigue. She knew some women would object to her decision, but this was her life, and she was going to live it as she chose.

I hear the doc gave you a thumbs-up on your surgery -Marc to Julian