“The Mommy Mystique tells us that we are the luckiest women in the world -- the freest, with the most choices, the… — Judith Warner Children Copy Share Image
“We seem to feel as though the life our children have -- that we have built for them -- is just a… — Judith Warner Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Too many of us now allow ourselves to be defined by motherhood and direct every ounce of our energy into our children.… — Judith Warner Anxiety Copy Share Image
What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and… — Judith Warner Balancing act Copy Share Image
“Something is missing, and it's something not so easy to name as semiabsent husbands, not so easy to point to as a… — Judith Warner Anxiety Copy Share Image
“--what's really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, it's a… — Judith Warner Anxiety Copy Share Image
The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent -… — Judith Warner Benefits Copy Share Image
“All these things we do bespeak a terrible anxiety: that our children simply will not be able to make it through life… — Judith Warner Anxiety Copy Share Image
“There’s a general sense now that children’s rights, children’s needs, children’s wants and desires have taken on too prominent a place in… — Judith Warner Ageism Copy Share Image
“I found that when women were able to act in line with their natural inclinations and ambitions -- whether to work or… — Judith Warner Character Copy Share Image
“I realized, listening to the silences that fell sometimes in my interview groups, that there are things that are sayable and unsayable… — Judith Warner American culture Copy Share Image
“I experienced a devastating loss of self...But in the same moment, I also recognized that a profound commitment had taken root inside… — Judith Warner Devastating loss Copy Share Image
“If things are better for women there, it is due to a profound and enduring social consensus that life should be made… — Judith Warner Life Copy Share Image
“The media not only fans our fears, it comforts us in our hubris. Nearly every scare story comes with a Message: You… — Judith Warner Anxiety Copy Share Image
“For too many women in America are becoming sick with exhaustion and stress as they try to do things that can't be… — Judith Warner Anxiety Copy Share Image
“There was something almost sacred in the self-sacrifice that I felt was required of me as a mother, caring for this child.” — Judith Warner Children Copy Share Image
I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my… — Judith Warner Art Copy Share Image
