“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 own strength by stealing their pain. And their confidence in our strength by saying we aren’t… — 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
