Kim Brooks

I got an MFA in fiction.

— Kim Brooks

I had never intended to be a stay-at-home-mom.

— Kim Brooks

I love my husband. I love my family.

— Kim Brooks

I have a profound and unshakable love of good eating.

— Kim Brooks

I don't know that I want to live in a world without cheese.

— Kim Brooks

I struggled with math and had no interest in sports.

— Kim Brooks

Sometimes we do things not because they're fun but because they're important.

— Kim Brooks

I consider myself a B-minus mom. I think I would be considered an A-plus dad.

— Kim Brooks

As a teenager, I'd longed to get my driver's license so I could get away from my parents. Then I'd longed to…

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When I first learned I was pregnant with my son, I had only two firm convictions about parenting: I knew it was…

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Lke so many depressive, creative, extremely lazy high-school students, I was saved by English class.

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In spring 2011, I was arrested for allowing my son, then 4, to wait in a car with the windows open for…

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I think part of the way in which kids develop emotional and psychological resiliency is by having some independence.

— Kim Brooks

I adore cooking and baking and holiday feasts and dining with friends and spending too much money on mind-blowing meals in wonderful…

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I have no choice but to admit that, for a while, I was a casual viewer of 'American Idol.' By 'casual viewer,'…

— Kim Brooks

Motherhood has become a battleground on which prejudice and class resentment can be waged without ever admitting that's what we're doing.

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The desire to keep television out of our son's life was one of the few parenting priorities my husband and I agreed…

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I attended a middling high school in central Virginia in the mid-'90s, so there were no lofty electives to stoke my artistic…

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I've harassed pediatricians and nurses, demanded extra conferences with preschool teachers, contacted speech therapists and occupational therapists over delays other mothers probably…

— Kim Brooks

When I read stories of suffering, I still feel something. It seems inhuman not to. At the same time, I'm more aware…

— Kim Brooks

In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for…

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All interesting, worthwhile humans suffered and struggled and overcame adversity of one sort or another. Pain is constructive. Misery can be useful.…

— Kim Brooks

When I earned my diploma from the University of Virginia in the spring of 2000, it never occurred to me before my…

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I don't know exactly when I started watching television, but I know that Muppets and Smurfs hold privileged places in my memory.…

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I allow myself to feel fear without always capitulating to it... You don't have to live your life by fear.

— Kim Brooks

It shouldn't be normal to be anxious all the time about your children, so women should seek mental health help if they're…

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“That’s why I hadn’t talked to you for a while. But man, did I miss hearing your sweet voice.” Sandy was surprised.…

— Kim Brooks

I wonder if all love affairs, all marriages, all lifelong partnerships, aren't in some ways a turning away from the world.

— Kim Brooks

What an awful burden we mothers and fathers, Jewish and not, have to bear - to hatch a thing we love more…

— Kim Brooks

Motherhood was the first instance in my life where I was asked to sacrifice anything for anyone.

— Kim Brooks

I worked as a restaurant hostess and tutored English-as-a-second-language without a formal work visa.

— Kim Brooks

A slice of perfectly buttered, warm-from-the-oven bread has been known to bring tears to my eyes.

— Kim Brooks

It is impossible to make it a crime to take your eyes off your children without also making it a crime to…

— Kim Brooks

As an angsty teenager and college student, I used to mock people who lived in gated communities, who were so afraid of…

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I think that the expectation on parents has changed from giving your children shelter and love and support and guidance to this…

— Kim Brooks

A father who is distracted for a few minutes by his myriad interests and obligations in the world of adult interactions is…

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There is so much people hate about Kim Kardashian, it sometimes seems as though her critics get as much enjoyment out of…

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This is what shame does to women: It isolates us and makes us feel our stories aren't really stories at all but…

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I grew up in a time when I could play and bike in the neighborhood, largely because my parents assumed that if…

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We need to challenge this assumption that any child who's alone, who isn't being directly supervised and observed, is a child in…

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