Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult
Jodi Lynn Picoultis an American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has approximately 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 May 1966
CountryUnited States of America
parent gone reason
And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.
parenting want incredibles
If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.
inspirational funny parenting
We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
children parent used
She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.
moving kids parenting
Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.
children parenting talking
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.
parenting parent
We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
parenting should-have names
I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.
children parent finding-yourself
When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.
growing-up people parent
Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.
sad children parent
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.
baby children parenting
I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.
children decision parent
Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.
mother parenting funny-parent
(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.