Quotes by Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

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Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why s — Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love a — Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
Increased responsibility for babies and young children has proved just as restrictive, if not more so, than sexism in th — Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others ma — Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with persona — Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
The tyranny of maternal duty is not new, but it has become considerably more pronounced with the rise of naturalism, and — Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
The message is clear: a good mother breast feeds. Significantly, this good mother shares a sociocultural profile with wo — Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals. — Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
An unemployed father is always considered more detrimental to the family than an unemployed mother, and at the same time — Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women