Good Mother Myth Quotes

“Among the other things I’ve learned as a mother, is that women continue to explain way too much.”
― Avital Norman Nathman, The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality

“While I plan to encourage my daughters to try new challenges and step outside their comfort zones, I might also gently suggest that they back away from a particularly solid brick wall, rather than repeatedly beating their heads against it. I’ve learned the hard way that you rarely break through, and more often than not, you just end up with a headache.”
― Avital Norman Nathman, The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality

“Never judge another’s outsides against your own insides.”
― Avital Norman Nathman, The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality

“For a society that will tinker with any “natural” process—birth, death, aging, noses, or chicken pox—this clinging to the old-fashioned “man and woman make a baby” mode as the truest path to motherhood is, when you think about it, rather odd. Witnessing my daughter’s birth as, essentially, a bystander, I promise I’m not less of a mother to her. I’m not like her mother; I am her mother.”
― Avital Norman Nathman, The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality