Quotes by : Élisabeth Badinter

The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize....

Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.

The message is clear: a good mother breast feeds. Significantly, this good mother shares a sociocultural....

Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their....

For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities....

An unemployed father is always considered more detrimental to the family than an unemployed mother, and....

The tyranny of maternal duty is not new, but it has become considerably more pronounced with the rise....

Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to....

Increased responsibility for babies and young children has proved just as restrictive, if not more so,....