Cutting Teeth Quotes

“It would be lovely if someone, anyone, could swoop in and tell them what to do in this perplexing situation. Where are the grown-ups? she finds herself thinking. Or rather, when did they become them?”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth

“And like a good scientist, Mary Beth, too, will wonder about the mystery of it all, how in the process of raising new humans, you become a new one yourself. How love for a child can accomplish feats modern medicine and technology can still only dream of and it will do so in the blink of an eye. For that love will rewire your brain, alter your personality, modify your DNA, and explode your heart, all, somehow, without killing you. On the precipice of parenthood she once thought: What if I change? When the scarier question was: What if I don’t?”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth

“Where is the great American novel about motherhood? Is it really so much less fascinating than middle-aged men with alcoholism and angsty affairs?”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth

“The wonderful thing about breastfeeding is that it’s free, she had read. But was it? Did it cost her nothing? Because if so, her time and energy and mental health must be valued at zero, in which case, in everyone else’s opinion, she hadn’t made a sacrifice at all. She hadn’t given anything.”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth

“If witness protection really wants to know the quickest way to make a woman disappear, just make her a mom.”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth

“There it is again, this idea that good mother means worrying, constant, expert worrying. The energy in her house is combustible.”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth

“I’m sorry, I really have to go,” Griff says.”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth

“That’s a bit harsh, don’t you think? Our eyes are supposed to be laser-focused on our kids at all”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth

“do. Has he ever stopped to wonder why being a mom actually is the hardest job in the world and not just something thoughtless people say? It’s because there’s never a day off—not just a day, but an hour, not so much as a minute. Is she sick? Is she feeling under the weather? Too bad! There’s no one to cover”
― Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth