Quotes by : Jennifer Senior

Parenthood is harder than conventional work, the author suggests, because our jobs develop a somewhat....

More than almost anything else, the experience of parenthood exposes the gulf between our experiencing....

The author observes the shift now that children are not a source of labor for the family, that they have....

We enshrine things to memory very differently than we experience them in real time. The psychologist....

The author describes the critic within us as adults as "the selves who live too much in their heads rather....

And if that's the case -- if we are our remembering selves -- then it matters far less how we feel moment....

As parents, we sometimes mistakenly assume that things were always this way. They weren't. The modern....

That women bring home the bacon, fry it up, serve it for breakfast, and use its greasy remains to make....

The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want.

Couples with children may argue more, the author suggests, because children are a reminder of just how....