Children Quote by 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 in their…

— 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 look at…

— 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 I let…

— 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 the collective…

— Claire Fontaine

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

— Claire Fontaine

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

— Claire Fontaine

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

— 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