The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it. — Mary Blakely Invariably Copy Share Image
If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced. — Mary Blakely Ifs Copy Share Image
Never accept an expert's opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds. — Mary Blakely Accepting Copy Share Image
Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned… — Mary Blakely Assumption Copy Share Image
When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should… — Mary Blakely Benches Copy Share Image
We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must… — Mary Blakely Absurd Copy Share Image
Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal. — Mary Blakely Exhausted Copy Share Image
One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience… — Mary Blakely Breathe Copy Share Image
In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal. — Mary Blakely Advancement Copy Share Image
In an ideal society, mothers and fathers would produce potty- trained, civilized, responsible new citizens while government and corporate leaders would provide… — Mary Blakely Citizens Copy Share Image
A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim… — Mary Blakely Adolescence Copy Share Image
The job description of mother is clearly in need of revision. As it stands, the shifts are 24 hours, for a period… — Mary Blakely Amendments Copy Share Image
With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I… — Mary Blakely Activity Copy Share Image
What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the… — Mary Blakely Activist Copy Share Image
However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology,fate . . . until we… — Mary Blakely Biology Copy Share Image
However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly… — Mary Blakely Being a mother Copy Share Image
Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like… — Mary Blakely Adolescence Copy Share Image
Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing,… — Mary Blakely Apologizing Copy Share Image
One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step… — Mary Blakely Atoms Copy Share Image
A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out… — Mary Blakely Add Copy Share Image
If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details… — Mary Blakely Arise Copy Share Image
In the range of things toddlers have to learn and endlessly review--why you can't put bottles with certain labels in your mouth,… — Mary Blakely Bottles Copy Share Image
Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as… — Mary Blakely Achieve Copy Share Image
Mothers are likely to have more bad days on the job than most other professionals, considering the hours: round-the-clock, seven days a… — Mary Blakely Bad day Copy Share Image
Certainly, words can be as abusive as any blow. . . . When a three-year-old yells, "You're so stupid! What a dummy!"… — Mary Blakely Abuse Copy Share Image
Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes… — Mary Blakely Boys Copy Share Image
After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles… — Mary Blakely Advice Copy Share Image
How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the… — Mary Blakely Break Copy Share Image
It takes twenty or so years before a mother can know with any certainty how effective her theories have been--and even then… — Mary Blakely Babe Copy Share Image
Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to… — Mary Blakely Driven Copy Share Image
In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When… — Mary Blakely Conflict Copy Share Image
By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions… — Mary Blakely Attention Copy Share Image
Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone… — Mary Blakely Adolescence Copy Share Image
