Quote by Ayelet Waldman
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowa

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. – Ayelet Waldman

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Look, if you ask a child, Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath, theyll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think its really important that children dont feel their parents emotional lives depend on their success. – Ayelet Waldman

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There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined youd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. – Ayelet Waldman

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By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat. – Ayelet Waldman

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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. – Cyril Connolly

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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. – Vita Sackville-West

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Ive always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. – Hugh Jackman

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Fear is the foundation of safety. – Tertullian

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