“In fact, these “bad mother with a briefcase” images are so prevalent that writer Jessica Valenti collected them in a funny and… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool.… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Not a second has passed since she had children without her feeling like a bad mother. For everything. For not understanding, for… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
My interests still are my interests. That doesn't make me a bad mother. I think that makes me a really good mother,… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
“I do so love my witches and wicked queens. I find myself drawn to feminine archetypes that previous generations have found threatening… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“She had known it was bad, call it a mother’s instinct, but she’d known this was the knock that was going to… — Andrew Barrett Copy Share Image
It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
“Social expectations about what constitutes a good or a bad mother haunt every decision, and the rise of the parental advice industry… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a… — Kate Middleton Copy Share Image
Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
He used to tell me that if I ever tried to leave, he would get custody of the kids. He threatened he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
