“Accountability is not about blame, it’s not about being wrong, it is about owning the choices you’ve made, or are making, that create the results you have in your life. And you do create everything in your life.” — Claire Fontaine Copy Share Image
“We tell our daughters we don’t trust them in a thousand ways. We don’t consciously mean to, but we steal their confidence in their… — Claire Fontaine Copy Share
“Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are” — Claire Fontaine Copy Share
“Sometimes, we have to give birth to our children twice…Once your child becomes the "garbage" other parents are afraid of, you never look at… — Claire Fontaine Copy Share
“I could see where I’d mistaken drama and conflict for life, which meant years of living reactively instead of generatively, a life I let… — Claire Fontaine Copy Share
“A woman’s relationship with herself is mirrored everywhere in her life, but no place more than with her daughter.” — Claire Fontaine Copy Share
“Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective… — Claire Fontaine Copy Share
“I know that for every mother, there is always the possibility of three in your relationship with your daughter. You, your daughter the way… — Claire Fontaine Copy Share
“My relationship with God has evolved as well. I no longer rail or beg or sass back. I was standing on a bluff over… — Claire Fontaine Copy Share
“- Child is abused, perpetrator threatens to hurt mother. Child feels protective of mother. - Struggle to escape perp reinforces feelings of mutual protection.… — Claire Fontaine Copy Share
“These are the kinds of regrets all women have, mistakes and missteps, paths not chosen, opportunities gone. Youth gone. Forever. And until I honestly… — Claire Fontaine Copy Share
“[Samantha Dunn] wrote that when God wants your attention, first He throws feathers. After that, He starts throwing bricks.” — Claire Fontaine Copy Share
“Caretaking is never about the other person. It's about wanting to feel needed because you're afraid you're not wanted.” — Claire Fontaine Copy Share
“God doesn't create suffering Claire, we do. We make the world and then we break it.” — Claire Fontaine Copy Share
“What was the payoff? It obviously kept me in my cozy zone of being in control, being a good mother, with a good daughter.… — Claire Fontaine Copy Share
