Help Is On the Way Quotes

“We text, and one time she asked if I would ever need her again. I told her I don’t know if I’ll have another baby, but if it meant she would come and live with me, I may just go ahead and do it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Help Is On the Way

“The fear of raising this baby myself, forever. All these fears were the worst I’ve ever had in my life, and Rose helped me keep them at bay. She was my mom when I needed a mom, and that wasn’t even her job.”
― Mindy Kaling, Help Is On the Way

“When they arrived, we all sat around my small apartment, ate delicious Indian food, and talked and talked for hours. I was surprised by how calming it was to be around people who looked like me and who reminded me of where I was from.”
― Mindy Kaling, Help Is On the Way

“All I wanted was for my mother to be there, helping me, telling me formula would not give my daughter dyslexia and/or male-pattern baldness.”
― Mindy Kaling, Help Is On the Way

“I didn’t have my mom. But I did have Rose. Rose loved giving advice, and I loved listening to it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Help Is On the Way

“at that point I was missing my mother viscerally, painfully. When I was pregnant, I had enough time to visualize taking care of my daughter without a husband. That was easy. Most of my friends’ husbands don’t even change diapers. But not having a mom around to support me was torture. It felt especially cosmically mean that my mother had been an obstetrician and gynecologist and I’d had a tough delivery.”
― Mindy Kaling, Help Is On the Way

“It was also so expensive that I actually gasped when I heard her daily rate, and this is coming from someone who didn’t think twice about spending twenty bucks to buy the movie Split on iTunes because she didn’t want to wait two weeks to rent it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Help Is On the Way

“I told her I don’t know if I’ll have another baby, but if it meant she would come and live with me, I may just go ahead and do it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Help Is On the Way

“I had read the baby books, of course, but could remember literally nothing but one fact: “babies are born without kneecaps.” What the hell was I supposed to do with that information? Invite some gangster to take retribution against me by kneecapping my baby and then laugh when he realizes it’s physically impossible? That was no good to me; I would have needed to lay the groundwork ages ago!”
― Mindy Kaling, Help Is On the Way

“I had read the baby books, of course, but could remember literally nothing but one fact: “babies are born without kneecaps.” What the hell was I supposed to do with that information?”
― Mindy Kaling, Help Is On the Way