Mother Party

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or party:

    Sometimes my wife complains that she’s overwhelmed with work and just can’t take one of the kids, for example, to a piano lesson. I’ll offer to do it for her, and then she’ll say, “No, I’ll do it.” We have to negotiate how much I trespass into that mother role—it’s not given up easily.
    —Anonymous Father. As quoted in Women and Their Fathers, by Victoria Secunda, ch. 3 (1992)

    At every party there are two kinds of people—those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
    Ann Landers (b. 1918)