In an old Peanuts strip, Peppermint Patty and Violet are reflecting on being a grandmother.  After Patty declares that she would like to be a grandmother, Violet agrees and says it would be nice because all they have to do is "sit and rock" (not quite the case, is it?)  The girls then decide that the trouble with being a grandmother is that first you have to be a wife and then a mother…and Violet sighs, "I know it…it's all those preliminaries that get me!"