Quotes by Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety

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I found that when women were able to act in line with their natural inclinations and ambitions -- whether to work or sta — Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and — Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
For too many women in America are becoming sick with exhaustion and stress as they try to do things that can't be -- sho — Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
--what's really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, — Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
We seem to feel as though the life our children have -- that we have built for them -- is just a delicate house of cards — Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my o — Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
Too many of us now allow ourselves to be defined by motherhood and direct every ounce of our energy into our children. T — Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
The media not only fans our fears, it comforts us in our hubris. Nearly every scare story comes with a Message: You can — Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
Something is missing, and it's something not so easy to name as semiabsent husbands, not so easy to point to as a lack o — Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
All these things we do bespeak a terrible anxiety: that our children simply will not be able to make it through life if — Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
The Mommy Mystique tells us that we are the luckiest women in the world -- the freest, with the most choices, the broade — Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
I realized, listening to the silences that fell sometimes in my interview groups, that there are things that are sayable — Judith Warner, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety