“I didn't feel like a slut, a bad mother, a terrible person. I didn't worry about my nudity or if he liked… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“As a teenager, he made screaming noises at night in his room, like a deranged person. He threw his electrical pencil sharpener… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“Admitting that this job isn’t always easy doesn’t make somebody a bad mother. At least, it shouldn’t. We’re all on this ride… — Jill Smokler Copy Share Image
“Even if I’m setting myself up for failure, I think it’s worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her… — 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
Say what you mean to your children and mean exactly what you say about them to the world while keeping in mind… — Fay Pickett 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
Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother. — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless… — Louis de Bernieres 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
Wanna know something I don't like?? Little girls that have a wonderful home and a loving mother!! And they get EVERYTHING they… — Alisha Copy Share Image
“Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Every so often, I'll look at myself in the mirror and go, 'You're a bad mother,' you know? Like, 'You're a bad… — Phil Heath Copy Share Image
I don't beat myself up any more about going to work. It doesn't mean I'm being a bad mother just because I… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers. — Cara Buono 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
“Look here at a warrior born, a scion of power and poverty whose purpose is manifold: to shatter shackles, to murder monarchs,… — Nicholas Eames 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'm a bad motherfucker, don't you know--and I'll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get to one fat boy's asshole," said… — Nick Cave 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
“I was certainly not the best mother. That goes without saying. I didn’t set out to be a bad mother, however. It… — Mary Kubica Copy Share Image
“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
