Citas de Mary Blakely

• Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

  Mary Blakely

  Divorce, Insightful, Bypass

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Como civilizar a los niños lleva casi dos décadas -unos veinte años de pensar, educar, enseñar, persuadir, recompensar, perdonar, advertir, castigar, compadecer, disculpar, recordar y repetir sin parar, por no hablar de decidir qué hacer cuándo-, ahora entiendo que a un paso en falso le siguen invariablemente cientos de oportunidades de volver a equivocarse.

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  Children, Moving, Teaching

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." . . . I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old.

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  Children, Two, Hands

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• By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning equal pay that everyone's attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the '70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.

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  Mother, Home, Equal Pay

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• La descripción del puesto de madre necesita claramente una revisión. Tal como está, los turnos son de 24 horas, durante un periodo aproximado de 1.825 días consecutivos. Las prestaciones necesitan ser modificadas: no hay vacaciones, ni baja por enfermedad, ni horas de comida, ni descansos. Además, es el único puesto no remunerado que conozco que puede dar lugar a arresto si no te presentas a trabajar.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Jobs, Vacation

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• Una madre no es engreída, ni orgullosa, porque sabe que el director del colegio puede llamar en cualquier momento para informar de que su hijo acaba de atravesar el gimnasio con una moto.

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  Mother, Children, Cocky

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• When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . .

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  Mother, Father, Should Have

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes and dreams of the presumably opposite sex, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons.

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  Mother, Dream, Sex

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• Women aren't trying to do too much. Women have too much to do.

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  Trying, Too Much, Busy

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to tempt the fates. Themoment I felt sure I had everything under control would invariably be the moment right before the principal called to report that one of my sons had just driven somebody's motorcycle through the high school gymnasium.

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  Mother, School, Fate

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• Certainly, words can be as abusive as any blow. . . . When a three-year-old yells, "You're so stupid! What a dummy!" it doesn't carry the same weight as when a mother yells those words to a child. . . . Even if you don't physically abuse young children, you can still drive them nuts with your words.

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  Mother, Children, Stupid

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• Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.

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  Mother, Looks, Normal

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• The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

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  Years, Twenties, Next

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

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  Mother, Want, Way

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

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• A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim to own a teenager.

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  Mother, Baby, Teenager

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.

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  Mother, War, Writing

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• En las casas densamente ocupadas por adolescentes ocurren cosas espeluznantes. Cuando una tarde comprobé una abolladura de diez centímetros en el techo del salón, incluso el chico que aún sostenía el bate de béisbol parecía realmente desconcertado sobre cómo podía habérsela hecho.

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  Baseball, Kids, Boys

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• With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.

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  Baby, Son, Night

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• In the range of things toddlers have to learn and endlessly review--why you can't put bottles with certain labels in your mouth, why you have to sit on the potty, why you can't take whatever you want in the store, why you don't hit your friends--by the time we got to why you can't drop your peas, well, I was dropping a few myself.

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  Labels, Bottles, Mouths

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.

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  Inspiring, Children, Soul

  Mary Kay Blakely (1989). “Wake Me when It's Over: A Journey to the Edge and Back”, Crown

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

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  Mind, Experts, Opinion

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

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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.

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  Husband, Divorce, Kids

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

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  Mother, Jobs, Bad Day

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

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• If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details is critical.The hostilities that arise over housework...are crushing the daughters of my generation....Change takes time, but men's continued obliviousness to home responsibilities is causing women everywhere to expire of trivialities.

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  Crush, Daughter, Home

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