Nobody Told Me Quotes

“So I lay her to sleep
and wipe off the milk
and step into the next room
for some innocent filth
in the middle of which
her scream jolts me up
And I transform breast once more
between lover
and love.”
― Hollie McNish, Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood

“I cry because the feel of my own body is completely unknown to me and nobody warned me about that.”
― Hollie McNish, Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood

“Me: So how was pre-school? Was it great? Was it great fun?
Little One: Yes it was Mum. It was really fun.
Me: That's so great. I'm so happy.
Little One: Yeah. But I don't think I'll go back again.
And I realise I forgot to tell her it's not a one-off. I just assumed she'd know.
Damn.
I'm not very good at this.”
― Hollie McNish, Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood

“I’ve got no research to back it up but I think Swedish parents have better orgasms, mainly based on less stifled hate and more shared parental leave. Orgasms; it’s all down to politics. Female ones, at least.”
― Hollie McNish, Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood

“And anyway, we don’t care about boobs. No one told me when I wore low-cut vest tops to be modest. We don’t have a problem with boobs at all. We have a problem with babies sucking on nipples, let’s be honest here.”
― Hollie McNish, Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood

“Whether consciously or not, you see people nervous when, as a young black male, he approaches. You see people cross the road, assume he won’t have a ticket on a train; he’s stopped at customs, checked for drugs, asked for drugs on holidays, stopped by the police more. Anyone who says this structural racist shit is not happening any more just needs just to follow him for a month. It’s a really sad way to grow up. One of the reasons he says he loves having a baby, apart from obviously having the actual baby and being a father, is because for the first time in his life, people in the street smile at him. When he’s with her, especially when he has her in a sling, he goes from ‘young black male’ to ‘sling-carrying male’ or ‘dad’. I think he would like a baby strapped to him for the rest of his life for this reason.”
― Hollie McNish, Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood

“Whether consciously or not, you see people nervous when, as a young black male, he approaches. You see people cross the road, assume he won’t have a ticket on a train; he’s stopped at customs, checked for drugs, asked for drugs on holidays, stopped by the police more. Anyone who says this structural racist shit is not happening any more just needs just to follow him for a month. It’s a really sad way to grow up. One”
― Hollie McNish, Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood