“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”– Honore de Balzac Related Quotes “Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.”– Mayim Bialik “How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.”– Voltaire “Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.”– Ogden Nash