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I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever.

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.

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

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone.

Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too.

Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.

Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.