Quotes by : Jennifer Senior

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....

What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion

The author says that one of the difficulties of modern parenting is the uncertainty of what parents are....

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

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.

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

Even when our children are still young and defenseless, we feel intimations of their departure. We find....

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....