Judith Warner

Quotes

• “Something is missing, and it's something not so easy to name as semiabsent husbands, not so easy to point to as a lack o...”
• “We seem to feel as though the life our children have -- that we have built for them -- is just a delicate house of cards...”
• “What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and...”
• “All these things we do bespeak a terrible anxiety: that our children simply will not be able to make it through life if ...”
• “--what's really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children,...”
• “The media not only fans our fears, it comforts us in our hubris. Nearly every scare story comes with a Message: You can ...”
• “I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my o...”