Common denominator Quote by Kim Brooks

I think there's a contempt for care work and caregiving in this country that seeps into how we think about mothers, professional workers who…

— Alissa Quart

“Double standards in domestic roles are deeply rooted in cultural attitudes and workplace practices. Working mothers are held to higher standards than working fathers…

— Barbara Kellerman

Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure…

— Melinda M Marshall

“The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes…

— Anonymous

There's a repression against mothers where we're expected to be full-time workers and pretend we're not mothers, and then expected to be full-time mothers…

— Catherine Reitman

A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

There is such a stigma on both sides of being a working mother, and you can fall into the trap of what you think…

— Samantha Ponder

In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have…

— Erica Jong

“Now, here's the real beauty of this contorting contradiction. Both working mothers and stay-at-home mothers get to be failures. The ethos of intensive mothering…

— Susan J. Douglas

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

— Anna Quindlen

“‎"There is an easy standoff between the two kinds of mother which sometimes makes it hard for us to talk to each other. I…

— Allison Pearson

Being a working mother means that you are always disappointing somebody.

— Meg Ryan