"I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like so many of the moms around me, I started to go a little crazy."

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Source : Judith Warner (2006). “Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety”, p.28, Penguin

Judith Warner

#Mom Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Art Quotes

“I was not a big comic-book reader.”
“There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.”
“Hello from the gutters of New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood.”
“A lot of people tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.”
“There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.”

Source : Alison Goodman (2010). “Eon”, p.202, Penguin
“In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.”
“Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“I think for what success looks like for me, it is a world in which you can look at the achievement scores, the academic scores, of any school anywhere in this country [the USA], and you wouldn't be able to look at the score and determine what the racial makeup or the socioeconomic makeup of that school is simply because of the academic achievement levels.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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