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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.

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

Having an infant is difficult. It's a lot of work, and I didn't hire any help because I overestimated my own abilities.

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, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.