Pamela Druckerman

My husband is so upset by President Trump's scapegoating of immigrants and Muslims, he refuses to even visit the United States.

— Pamela Druckerman

Babies aren't savages. Toddlers understand language long before they can talk.

— Pamela Druckerman

Around my neighborhood, I'm known as the American who talks to her computer while she types.

— Pamela Druckerman

By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people.

— Pamela Druckerman

When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

— Pamela Druckerman

Here's some news you might find surprising: By and large, the French like Jews.

— Pamela Druckerman

“Babies are designed to cry when they need something and mothers are designed to respond.”

— Pamela Druckerman

I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.

— Pamela Druckerman

It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a…

— Pamela Druckerman

I gradually understood why European mothers aren't in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don't write books about how executive moms…

— Pamela Druckerman

I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they'll regret things that they haven't…

— Pamela Druckerman

If you had asked me what I wanted when I was 12 years old, I probably would have said, 'To marry a…

— Pamela Druckerman

When we're in the U.S., my kids instantly start snacking all the time. I don't know how it happens. There is just…

— Pamela Druckerman

Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and…

— Pamela Druckerman

There's this idea in America that you can be whatever you want. That remains an ideal in terms of how you dress…

— Pamela Druckerman

“[French] Parents see it as their job to bring the child around to appreciating this [food]. They believe that just as they…

— Pamela Druckerman

French parents are very concerned about their kids. They know about pedophiles, allergies, and choking hazards. They take reasonable precautions. But they…

— Pamela Druckerman

“Like the French, he starts babies off on vegetables and fruits rather than bland cereals. He's not obsessed with allergies. He talks…

— Pamela Druckerman

“French parents don't worry that they're going to damage their kids by frustrating them. To the contrary, they think their kids will…

— Pamela Druckerman

“Walter Mischel says the worst-case scenario for a kid from eighteen to twenty-four months of age is "the child is busy and…

— Pamela Druckerman

“Give willingly, refuse unwillingly,” he writes in Émile. “But let your refusal be irrevocable. Let no entreaties move you; let your ‘no,’…

— Pamela Druckerman

The overarching conventional wisdom - what everyone from government experts to my French girlfriends take as articles of faith - is that…

— Pamela Druckerman

One of the maddening things about being a foreigner in France is that hardly anyone in the rest of the world knows…

— Pamela Druckerman

When I tell French parents that I know lots of American kids who will eat only pasta or only white rice, they…

— Pamela Druckerman

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

— Pamela Druckerman

Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice.

— Pamela Druckerman

When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful.

— Pamela Druckerman

Before Donald Trump took office, optimism about his presidency was the lowest of any president-elect since at least the 1970s.

— Pamela Druckerman

Having lived in America and France, I've been on both sides of the picky-eating divide.

— Pamela Druckerman

I spend much of my free time listening to podcasts of American comedians talking to each other.

— Pamela Druckerman

You know you're in your 40s when you've spent 48 hours trying to think of a word, and that word was 'hemorrhoids.'

— Pamela Druckerman

One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren't lost forever; they live in…

— Pamela Druckerman

Discrimination was a problem before terrorism. Now, the bad deeds of a few people have made life worse for millions.

— Pamela Druckerman

The French aren't known for being hilarious. When I told Parisians I was interested in French humor, they'd say 'French what?'

— Pamela Druckerman

Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark.

— Pamela Druckerman

Although I wrote a book about infidelity around the world, I ended up concluding that fidelity is quite a good idea.

— Pamela Druckerman

I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim.

— Pamela Druckerman

One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into…

— Pamela Druckerman

How hard or easy it is to raise kids, especially while working, is a big part of people's well-being everywhere.

— Pamela Druckerman

The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging.

— Pamela Druckerman