Author: Kim Brooks

Quotes

This is what shame does to women: It isolates us and makes us feel our stories aren't really stories at all but idiosyncratic flaws.

This is what shame does to women: It isolates us and makes us feel our stories aren't really stories at all but idiosyncratic flaws.

- Kim Brooks

It shouldn't be normal to be anxious all the time about your children, so women should seek mental health help if they're having excessive levels of anxiety.

It shouldn't be normal to be anxious all the time about your children, so women should seek mental health help if they're having excessive levels of anxiety.

- Kim Brooks

People don't think that leaving children alone is dangerous and therefore immoral. They think it is immoral and therefore dangerous.

People don't think that leaving children alone is dangerous and therefore immoral. They think it is immoral and therefore dangerous.

- Kim Brooks

In spring 2011, I was arrested for allowing my son, then 4, to wait in a car with the windows open for a few minutes.

In spring 2011, I was arrested for allowing my son, then 4, to wait in a car with the windows open for a few minutes.

- Kim Brooks

I wonder if all love affairs, all marriages, all lifelong partnerships, aren't in some ways a turning away from the world.

I wonder if all love affairs, all marriages, all lifelong partnerships, aren't in some ways a turning away from the world.

- Kim Brooks

Motherhood was the first instance in my life where I was asked to sacrifice anything for anyone.

Motherhood was the first instance in my life where I was asked to sacrifice anything for anyone.

- Kim Brooks

I grew up in a time when I could play and bike in the neighborhood, largely because my parents assumed that if I ever needed help, I could ask a nearby adult.

I grew up in a time when I could play and bike in the neighborhood, largely because my parents assumed that if I ever needed help, I could ask a nearby adult.

- Kim Brooks

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