Balancing act Quote by Judith Warner

“The Mommy Mystique tells us that we are the luckiest women in the world -- the freest, with the most choices, the broadest horizons,…

— Judith Warner

“We seem to feel as though the life our children have -- that we have built for them -- is just a delicate house…

— Judith Warner

“Too many of us now allow ourselves to be defined by motherhood and direct every ounce of our energy into our children. This sounds…

— Judith Warner

“Something is missing, and it's something not so easy to name as semiabsent husbands, not so easy to point to as a lack of…

— Judith Warner

“--what's really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, it's a reflection on…

— Judith Warner

The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of…

— Judith Warner

“All these things we do bespeak a terrible anxiety: that our children simply will not be able to make it through life if we…

— Judith Warner

“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 our family…

— Judith Warner

“I found that when women were able to act in line with their natural inclinations and ambitions -- whether to work or stay at…

— Judith Warner

“I realized, listening to the silences that fell sometimes in my interview groups, that there are things that are sayable and unsayable about motherhood…

— Judith Warner

“I experienced a devastating loss of self...But in the same moment, I also recognized that a profound commitment had taken root inside me, and…

— Judith Warner

“If things are better for women there, it is due to a profound and enduring social consensus that life should be made livable based…

— Judith Warner