Mary Blakely Quotes - Page 2

• We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must be the first revolution in history to accomplish its goals without hurting anyone's feelings.

  Mary Blakely

  Hurt, Goal, Expectations

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• Por muy diligente que sea, por muy dedicada que esté, ninguna madre puede escapar a las grandes influencias de la cultura, la biología, el destino... hasta que podamos vivir realmente en una sociedad en la que las madres y los hijos importen de verdad, la nuestra es una responsabilidad esencialmente impotente. Las madres llevan a cabo la mayoría de las órdenes de trabajo, pero la mayoría de las normas que rigen nuestras vidas están moldeadas por influencias externas.

  Mary Blakely

  Madre, Hijos, Responsabilidad

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• Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Real, Self

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• If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.

  Mary Blakely

  Solitude, Should, Periods

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• Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.

  Mary Blakely

  Attitude, Heart, Divorce

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• How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the chances to recover and try again? How does one break the news that nothing permanent can be formed in an instant--children are not weaned, potty trained, taught manners, introduced to civilization in one or two tries--as everyone imagined.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Mistake, Opportunity

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• In an ideal society, mothers and fathers would produce potty- trained, civilized, responsible new citizens while government and corporate leaders would provide a safe, healthy, economically just community.

  Mary Blakely

  Madre, Padre, Gobierno

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

  Mary Blakely

  Art, Anger, Fine

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Self Esteem, Son

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• It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

  Mary Blakely

  Home, Compelling Reason, World

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• La mayor parte de la literatura sobre la cultura de la adolescencia se centra en la presión del grupo como fuerza negativa. Las advertencias sobre el "grupo equivocado" se leen como alertas de tornado en los manuales para padres. . . . Es un término relativo que significa cosas diferentes en lugares diferentes. En Fort Wayne, por ejemplo, el grupo equivocado significaba juntarse con demócratas liberales. En Connecticut, significaba chicos que no planeaban obtener un doctorado en Yale.

  Mary Blakely

  Mean, Kids, Yale

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). "American Mom Motherhood Politics and Humble Pie", Pocket

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• 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

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• 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

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• Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned the principle of 'our money, our kids' into the reality of 'his money, her kids.

  Mary Blakely

  Husband, Divorce, Kids

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Never accept an expert's opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds.

  Mary Blakely

  Mind, Experts, Opinion

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Madre, Malo, Hijo

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• It takes twenty or so years before a mother can know with any certainty how effective her theories have been--and even then thereare surprises. The daily newspapers raise the most frightening questions of all for a mother of sons: Could my once sweet babes ever become violent men? Are my sons really who I think they are?

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Sweet, Son

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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