I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesnt promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. – Patricia Heaton
Its hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden. – Patricia Heaton
I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours theyre at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives. – Patricia Heaton
Its a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer. – Patricia Heaton
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. – Wislawa Szymborska