Top 25 Quotes About Mom Guilt
#1. Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.
Sarah Wayne Callies
#2. But from the errors of other nations let us learn wisdom, and lay hold of the present opportunity - to begin government at the right end.
Thomas Paine
#3. The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown.
Brigitte Bardot
#4. Balance in impossible; memories are better. (TILT-7 Solutions To Be A Guilt-free Working Mom)
Marci Fair
#5. I fully grant that mysterious invisible room-cleaning is in a way great, every true slob's fantasy, somebody materializing and deslobbing your room and then dematerializing - like having a mom without the guilt.
David Foster Wallace
#6. Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt.
Linda Barnes
#7. I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.
Cynthia Voigt
#8. Dwelling over this loss while wandering down Central Park West somewhere around Seventy-sixth, Seventy-fifth, it strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
Bret Easton Ellis
#9. Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up.
Tamara L. Chilver
#10. I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
Arianna Huffington
#11. I respect only those who stand up to me, but I find such people intolerable.
Jonathan Fenby
#12. We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.
John Callahan
#13. My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
Edward Carpenter
#14. I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
T Bone Burnett
#15. I knew I'd sounded bitter, but I didn't bend even when guilt threatened to throttle me with its bony fingers. I hope it was worth it, Mom.
Megan Hart
#16. [Congress] is not the British Parliament, and I hope it never will become the British Parliament ... Are we going to bring the president in here and have a question period like the prime minister has in Great Britain?
Trent Lott
#18. When an abuse has once taken root everything is arranged on the assumption of its continuance.
Frederic Bastiat
#19. I don't like the sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating. And it gets everywhere.
R.A. Salvatore
#20. My kids make me laugh every day. And they're so supportive. As I get older, they understand those things I worried about - the guilt of being gone - in a way that's so healing for me, when they say, "Mom, we know you love what you do. We love to watch you do what you do."
Reese Witherspoon
#21. I wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.
Jack Kerouac
#22. Something had gone horribly wrong at my birth, so my father would never have his little soldier, Mom would never have her home filled with tiny scampering joy, and we each clutched our guilt very privately.
Edward Fahey
#23. A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#24. Remember what mom used to say? "Shred the guilt.
Miriam Toews
#25. The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt.
Elisabeth Badinter
