Danielle Crittenden Quotes

• So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind ourselves to the needs of our children and harden our hearts against them, we will continue to feel torn, dissatisfied, and exhausted…. The guilt we feel for neglecting our children is a byproduct of our love for them. It keeps us from straying too far from them, for too long. Their cry should be more compelling than the call from the office.

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  Danielle Crittenden

  Children   Heart   Long  

  Danielle Crittenden (2009). “What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• A woman will not understand what true dependency is until she is cradling her own infant in her arms; nor will she likely achieve the self-confidence she craves until she has withstood, and transcended, the weight of responsibility a family places upon her -- a weight that makes all the paperwork and assignments of her in-basket seem feather-light.

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  Danielle Crittenden

  Responsibility   Self Confidence   Light  

  Danielle Crittenden (2009). “What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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