Claire Fontaine

“We tell our daughters we don’t trust them in a thousand ways. We don’t consciously mean to, but we steal their confidence…

— Claire Fontaine

“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

“Sometimes, we have to give birth to our children twice....Once your child becomes the "garbage" other parents are afraid of, you never…

— Claire Fontaine

“I could see where I’d mistaken drama and conflict for life, which meant years of living reactively instead of generatively, a life…

— Claire Fontaine

“A woman’s relationship with herself is mirrored everywhere in her life, but no place more than with her daughter.”

— Claire Fontaine

“Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to…

— Claire Fontaine

“I know that for every mother, there is always the possibility of three in your relationship with your daughter. You, your daughter…

— Claire Fontaine

“My relationship with God has evolved as well. I no longer rail or beg or sass back. I was standing on a…

— Claire Fontaine

“- Child is abused, perpetrator threatens to hurt mother. Child feels protective of mother. - Struggle to escape perp reinforces feelings of…

— Claire Fontaine

“These are the kinds of regrets all women have, mistakes and missteps, paths not chosen, opportunities gone. Youth gone. Forever. And until…

— Claire Fontaine

“[Samantha Dunn] wrote that when God wants your attention, first He throws feathers. After that, He starts throwing bricks.”

— Claire Fontaine

“We carve our destinies blindfolded, with sharp knives.”

— Claire Fontaine

“Caretaking is never about the other person. It's about wanting to feel needed because you're afraid you're not wanted.”

— Claire Fontaine

“God doesn't create suffering Claire, we do. We make the world and then we break it.”

— Claire Fontaine

“What was the payoff? It obviously kept me in my cozy zone of being in control, being a good mother, with a…

— Claire Fontaine

“There are lots of ways to lose yourself—motherhood’s just one of them.”

— Claire Fontaine

“Accountability is not about blame, it’s not about being wrong, it is about owning the choices you’ve made, or are making, that…

— Claire Fontaine