When the children were little, I'd fly into L.A. for a specific work project, but then I'd leave again, and when I was home, I wouldn't even read a script.
I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.
Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.
Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
All parents all over the world want their children to lead a better life than themselves, but they need to believe that change is possible.
I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.
I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
