Mayim Bialik

“My first son didn't really take a bottle, and I didn't like giving bottles.”

“I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.”

“Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make.”

“As a kid, I felt really weird.”

“I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.”

“I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.”

“The fact is safe co-sleeping is not difficult. The notion of babies being smothered is simply not true. And the benefits of sleeping together are profound.”

“One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.”

“I'm technically a vegan, but I do eat egg if it's in things.”

“I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.”

“I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.”

“Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.”

“I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.”

“You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.”

“Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.”