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I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture.

~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Topics: Believe Children Culture Dysfunctional Fabric Family Life Muslim Norms Parents Pass Practise Promote Real Threat Very Western I Believe I Believe That

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If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Am Anyone Anyone Else Bad Child Children Else Fact Good Good Mother Her Husband In Fact Love Loves More Mother Than Who World I Am I Love

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A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Active Always Art Beloved Breakfast Cheerful Children Clothes Community Dates Does Fit Fruit Games Good Good Mother Her Make Mother Neuroses Never Onto Own Play Project Projects Remembers Serve She Them Volunteer

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I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: After-School Back Before Books Children Crumbs Day Did Doubt Forth Hate Homework Hour Kitchen Kitchen Table More Now Out School Seated Snack Spread Table Textbooks Than Them Without Worst

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I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Always Believe Children Difficult Easier Encourage Even Everything Feel Hurts Leads Most Mothers Okay Painful Pretend Right Same Shame Short Short Term Should Tell Term Truth Truth Is Your I Believe I Believe That

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Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Carnegie Carnegie Hall Chance Children Crushes Debut Excuse Fail Gives Hall Like Only Others Roaring Some Succeed Tiger Turns Who

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One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Bad Children Darkest Deepest Failing Falling Far Fear Feel Ideals Many Mothers Nowadays Our Own Short Us

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By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Both Children Even Experience Faithful Fear Honest Hope How Might Mother Presenting Readers Record Redeem Show Sins Truth You

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Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Am Any Bathing Children Day Every Every Day Four Good Hair Holding Homework Husband Love Part Sitting Spend Tears Them Tragic Weep While Whom Yes I Am

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By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Am Any Bed Building By The Time Car Castles Children Correct Day Drained Go Her Lego Mother Precisely Shopping Soccer Spent Time Who Working I Am

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