The Radical Housewife Quotes

“I can’t remember the moment I was labeled bitch for the first time, but it sure wasn’t in the blogosphere of 2008. It was well before the blogosphere, let alone the World Wide Web, existed. The first time I was called a bitch, the home computer of choice was a Vic 20, capable of playing Pong and calculating to eight decimal points but not much else.”
― Shannon Drury, The Radical Housewife: Redefining Family Values for the 21st Century

“The Mommy Wars, as they stand today, serve as an effective check on the ambitions of the American mother. The phenomenon keeps women in a perpetual state of guilt, shame and inadequacy, and does so without involving anyone but wealthy white women.”
― Shannon Drury, The Radical Housewife: Redefining Family Values for the 21st Century

“The outrageous madonna/whore duality that we mock in Women’s Studies 101 has its subtle, and very insidious, expression in the good/bad mother paradigm that we grapple with every day of our lives.”
― Shannon Drury, The Radical Housewife: Redefining Family Values for the 21st Century