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Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

Where the daughter sees power, the mother feels powerless. Daughters and mothers, I found, both overestimate the other's power - and underestimate their own.

I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.

All mothers go through the exact same things.