Danielle Crittenden quotes

“A woman will not understand what true dependency is until she is cradling her own infant in her arms; nor will she likely achieve the self-confidence she craves until she has withstood, and transcended, the weight of responsibility a family places upon her -- a weight that makes all the paperwork and assignments of her in-basket seem feather-light.”
-- Danielle Crittenden

Source : Danielle Crittenden (2009). “What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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“So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind ourselves to the needs of our children and harden our hearts against them, we will continue to feel torn, dissatisfied, and exhausted…. The guilt we feel for neglecting our children is a byproduct of our love for them. It keeps us from straying too far from them, for too long. Their cry should be more compelling than the call from the office.”
-- Danielle Crittenden

Source : Danielle Crittenden (2009). “What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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“A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.”

“You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.”

“A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.”

“She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women’s lives. Whatever it was, I was clearly missing it. It was so much more than just self-confidence; it seemed to be the ability to love oneself, enthusiastically and unsparingly, body and soul, naturally followed by the assumption that every man on the planet is dying to get in on the act.”

Source : Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.168, Ballantine Books

“The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.”

“Love from within, be determined and let your self-confidence take you to heights you never experienced before”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.”

“Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.”

Source : "Stars Rise at Startup Summer Camp" by Ryan Singel, www.wired.com. September 13, 2005.

“Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.”

“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”