Mary Blakely Quotes About Motherhood

• However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.

  Mary Blakely

  Madre, Malo, Hijo

• In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?

  Mary Blakely

  Motherhood, Reality, Opposites

• Es probable que las madres tengan más días malos en el trabajo que la mayoría de los demás profesionales, teniendo en cuenta el horario: las veinticuatro horas del día, siete días a la semana, cincuenta y dos semanas al año. . . . Vas a trabajar cuando estás enferma, puede que incluso clínicamente deprimida, porque la maternidad es quizá el único puesto no remunerado en el que no presentarse puede suponer un arresto.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Jobs, Bad Day

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

• Un reportaje "instantáneo" de USA Today enumeraba las cinco mayores preocupaciones de padres y profesores sobre los niños de los años 50: hablar fuera de turno, mascar chicle en clase, hacer los deberes, pasarse de la raya, limpiar sus habitaciones. A continuación, enumera las cinco mayores preocupaciones de los padres de hoy: drogadicción, embarazo adolescente, suicidio y homicidio, violencia de bandas, anorexia y bulimia. También podemos añadir el sida, la pobreza y la falta de vivienda. . . . Entre mi propia infancia y la llegada de mi maternidad -una generación corta- la cultura se había vuelto completamente loca.

  Mary Blakely

  Suicidio, Profesor, Niños

• After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles I'd read, I started relying on the expert advice of other mothers--especially those with sons a few years older than mine. This great body of knowledge is essentially an oral history, because anyone engaged in motherhood on a daily basis has no time to write an advice book about it.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Real, Book

• What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the movementin the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women's movement that put self-esteem back into "just a housewife," rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of "instinct" and making it human, deliberate, powerful.

  Mary Blakely

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Son

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