Kasey Edwards > Quotes

“I'm ashamed to reveal that, even as a teanager, I was guilty of participanting in the mummy wars and jusging another woman for her mothering preferences. It seems that the stay-at-home mothers are still being accused of being anti-feminist and poor role models to their daughters, whereas working mothers have been accused of everything from child abuse to being selfish feminists and inflating house prices. Women are pinched against other women, and no matter where you stand in this minefield, you can't help but notice that men seem to escape the guilt and the blame.”
― Kasey Edwards, 30 Something and Over It: What Happens When You Wake Up And Don't Want to Go To Work Ever Again

“We want our daughters to be curious and independent and ambitious. We want them to make good choices, to have the resilience to bounce back from their ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time’ decisions, and to possess the strength to recover from plain bad luck.”
― Kasey Edwards, Raising Girls Who Like Themselves

“Before this, when I'd admired my colleagues for being so calm, I had creditied them with a greater level of maturity and wisdom than I had. I now wonder if I was being too complimentary and that instead, like me, they'd just lost their give-a-shit too.”
― Kasey Edwards, 30 Something and Over It: What Happens When You Wake Up And Don't Want to Go To Work Ever Again

“Searching for answers, I ask Emma why she thinks women seem more over it than men. 'Because we don't have dicks,' she says simply.'By the time we get to our thirties we realised that a dick is far more valuable in the workplace than intellect, education, or dedication. We'll never have the necessary equipment.”
― Kasey Edwards, 30 Something and Over It: What Happens When You Wake Up And Don't Want to Go To Work Ever Again

“Good writing is like porn to me.”
― Kasey Edwards, 30 Something and Over It: What Happens When You Wake Up And Don't Want to Go To Work Ever Again

“I explain that i want time off to write a book. Garry laughs at me and says I can't work part time simply because I want to. He says he can't set that sort of precedent in the organisation. If he lets me work part-time, everybody might want to do it.”
― Kasey Edwards, 30 Something and Over It: What Happens When You Wake Up And Don't Want to Go To Work Ever Again

“the more conscious you are of the way you were parented, the more likely you are to make better decisions when it comes to raising your daughter.”
― Kasey Edwards, Raising Girls Who Like Themselves

“First, the good news. Our girls have more opportunities than their mothers and aunties. When it comes to education, they’re smashing it in the classroom, outperforming boys at high school and university.”
― Kasey Edwards, Raising Girls Who Like Themselves

“Why is this happening? Why are girls who appear to be swimming in a world of opportunity drowning in insecurity and self-loathing? Because the world can be toxic for girls. We know that’s a big claim, but the reality is that many girls are growing up in a society where they will be invisible if they don’t act sexy, and be branded a slut if they do.”
― Kasey Edwards, Raising Girls Who Like Themselves

“We want our daughters to be curious and independent and ambitious. We want them to make good choices, to have the resilience to bounce back from their ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time’ decisions, and to possess”
― Kasey Edwards, Raising Girls Who Like Themselves

“And you know what? That’s okay. Children don’t need perfect parents. They just need good-enough parents.”
― Kasey Edwards, Raising Girls Who Like Themselves

“If we encourage our kids to be active, to play outside and to eat healthy food because it’s good for their growing bodies, bones and brains, and not because they need to hit some arbitrary figure on a weight chart, then we have done our job. More than ever, we need to be teaching our girls that the goal should be the process of living a healthy life and not the outcome of meeting a commercially driven standard of beauty.”
― Kasey Edwards, Raising Girls Who Like Themselves