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A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

Being a parent is weird. It changes people in subtle and unsubtle ways. In my case, it awoke a kind of manic sentinel in my brain. Anything in the house that might be a threat to the kids or to my wife gets terminated - food, sharp edges, poor wiring.

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

I really don't know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

When you're around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you're supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.