Claire Fontaine Quotes

#1. We carve our destinies blindfolded, with sharp knives.

Claire Fontaine

#2. It is its own religion, this love. Uncontainable, savage, and without end, it is what I feel for my child.

Claire Fontaine

#3. A woman's relationship with herself is mirrored everywhere in her life, but no place more than with her daughter.

Claire Fontaine

#4. I know that for every mother, there is always the possibility of three in your relationship with your daughter. You, your daughter the way she is, and your daughter the way you want her to be. I learned the hard way ten years ago that that kind of control is an illusion and a barrier.

Claire Fontaine

#5. God doesn't create suffering Claire, we do. We make the world and then we break it.

Claire Fontaine

#6. There are lots of ways to lose yourself - motherhood's just one of them.

Claire Fontaine

#7. We tell our daughters we don't trust them in a thousand ways. We don't consciously mean to, but we steal their confidence in their own strength by stealing their pain. And their confidence in our strength by saying we aren't strong enough to see them struggle.

Claire Fontaine

#8. Sometimes, we have to give birth to our children twice ... Once your child becomes the "garbage" other parents are afraid of, you never look at any teen, or yourself, the same again. All you see is the child they once were.

Claire Fontaine

#9. Caretaking is never about the other person. It's about wanting to feel needed because you're afraid you're not wanted.

Claire Fontaine

#10. Travel empties out everything you've into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are

Claire Fontaine

#11. [Samantha Dunn] wrote that when God wants your attention, first He throws feathers. After that, He starts throwing bricks.

Claire Fontaine

#12. Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being.

Claire Fontaine

#13. Accountability is not about blame, it's not about being wrong, it is about owning the choices you've made, or are making, that create the results you have in your life. And you do create everything in your life.

Claire Fontaine