"What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and family, as the equation is typically phrased, but between your premotherhood and postmotherhood identities? What kind of choice is it when you have to choose between becoming a mother and remaining yourself?"

-- Judith Warner

#Mother Quotes #Choices Quotes #Identity Quotes

“You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn”
“American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.”
“If you're living two lives and you're lying to everyone, you're bound to slip up, in some way, you're bound to get something wrong, and you're bound to get found out.”
“Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?”
“My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.”
“If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.”
“Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.”
“If I am lucky and find material that is interesting to me, I want to make it.”

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