Status Updates From Perfect Madness: Motherhood...

Written 20 years ago and still describing the experience of modern motherhood so well.

One thing is for sure, we have always been really good at complicating motherhood. Because when in doubt, you can always blame the mom.

SPICY in just the foreword

“‘If you keep banging your head against the wall, you’re going to have headaches.’ I have thought of these words so many times in my now four years of motherhood in America. I have seen so many mothers banging their heads against the wall. And treating their pain - the chronic headache of their lives - with sleeping pills and antidepressants and anxiety meds and a more and more potent form of perfectionism”

“We are consumed with doing for our children in mind and soul and body - and the result is we are so depleted that we have little of ourselves left for ourselves. And whatever anger we might otherwise feel - at society, at our husbands, at the experts that led us to this pass - is directed, also, just at ourselves. Or at the one permissible target: other mothers.”

Can’t get into it.