Lise Payette a dit...

Vaut-il mieux une mère fière d'elle-même, satisfaite de s'accomplir comme citoyenne à part entière, tout en ayant les enfants qu'elle désire, ou une mère à plein temps, fière de l'être et entièrement consacrée à ses enfants? C'est à chaque femme de répondre. Selon ses choix. La société doit donc s'organiser de telle sorte qu'une femme puisse exercer ce choix librement. Nous sommes encore loin du compte au Québec, mais il y a eu certains progrès. Nous sommes loin d'une politique familiale cohérente et les revendications continuent.

- Lise Payette, chroniqueure politique.- Journal de Montréal, 4 avril 2006

Judith Warner a dit...

Like the newspaper editor, the other moms didn't feel entitled to complain. By any objective measure, they had easy lives--kids in good schools, houses in good neighborhoods, dependable husbands whose incomes allowed them to mostly choose what they wanted to do with their time. Most had chosen to pursue Mommy Track jobs--part-time work, a big cut in ambition and salary. But they didn't mind that; they knew that that was a privilege. Still, there was something that bugged them. It ate away at them. It cast a pall on all the rest. What they couldn't make peace with was the feeling that somehow, more globally, they were living Mommy Track lives.

- Judith Warner - Perfect Madness. Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety