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.
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One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.
Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.
American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mothers. We ricochet between 'Everything I ever accomplished I owe to my mother' and 'Every problem I have in my life is my mother's fault.'
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.
The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
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