“While I plan to encourage my daughters to try new challenges and step outside their comfort zones, I might also gently suggest that they back away from a particularly solid brick wall, rather than repeatedly beating their heads against it.… — Avital Norman Nathman Copy Share Image
“For a society that will tinker with any “natural” process—birth, death, aging, noses, or chicken pox—this clinging to the old-fashioned “man and woman make a baby” mode as the truest path to motherhood is, when you think about it, rather odd. Witnessing my daughter’s birth as, essentially, a bystander, I promise I’m not less of a mother to her. I’m… — Avital Norman Nathman Copy Share
“While I plan to encourage my daughters to try new challenges and step outside their comfort zones, I might also gently suggest that they… — Avital Norman Nathman Copy Share Image
“Among the other things I’ve learned as a mother, is that women continue to explain way too much.” — Avital Norman Nathman Copy Share Image
