“Mother’s Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path... that those with children are more important than those without.”— Anne Lamott, salon.comTagged: Motherhood
“We talk about ‘loving one’s child’ as if a child were a mystical unicorn. Ninety-eight percent of American parents secretly feel that if you have not had and raised a child, your capacity for love is somehow diminished. Ninety-eight percent of American parents secretly believe that non-parents canno…”— Anne Lamott, salon.comTagged: Motherhood, Parenthood, I Hate Children, Childhood
“Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother’s Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.”— Anne Lamott, salon.comTagged: Motherhood, Parenthood, I Hate Children