When Did I Get Like This? Quotes

“The things a mother does well are always invisible compared to the things she does badly.”
― Amy Wilson, When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

“I lied and called it “nothing,” simply because it was too exhausting to lay it all out.”
― Amy Wilson, When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

“a mother should, above all, make her children feel safe. Perhaps”
― Amy Wilson, When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

“lower my voice instead of raise it, model flexibility rather than impatience, embrace my child rather than my frustration. I”
― Amy Wilson, When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

“Nobody disputes the enormous responsibility a mother has for shaping her children’s lives: I get to shape their personalities, their experiences, their very futures. Isn’t that wonderful? No. It’s terrifying.”
― Amy Wilson, When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be