Mayim Bialik quotes:

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

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.

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.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.

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

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

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

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.

To be honest, it's considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from toddlerhood on.

I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'

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.

I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.

Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

I don't care much about conforming.

I don't think my stylist would let me bedazzle my splint,

I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.

The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.

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."

I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.

Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child.

I've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

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.

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.

Publicly I'm a very modest dresser, by Hollywood's standards.

You know, there's a tremendous amount of genetic propensity not necessarily for what TV shows you like but for literally how you view the world, how you react to things, how things touch you and how things move you.

A lot of stuff I wear I've had since high school.

As a kid, I felt really weird.

Don't listen to anyone's advice. Listen to your baby ... There are so many books, doctors, and well-meaning friends and family. We like to say, 'You don't need a book. Your baby is a book. Just pick it up and read it.'

I don't look like most women in the industry.

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.

I have a life. My kids don't run my house.

I like bold colors but usually wear black.

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I'm a pretty quiet person.

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

I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.

I'm generally intimidated by adults.

Let's reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives.