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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't 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

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.

I'm not good at accepting help.

Patricia Heaton

Help

You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.

Patricia Heaton

Time

People

You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

Patricia Heaton

People

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

Patricia Heaton

Affection

Support

We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

Patricia Heaton

Life

Will

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

Patricia Heaton

Kids

Schools

Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

Patricia Heaton

Hollywood

Living

My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.

Patricia Heaton

Mother

Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.

Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

It's 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.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.