Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers.

- Jean Marzollo

If work is part of your identity, think very carefully before you give it up. Giving it up won't make you a better mother; it will make you less of t…

- Jean Marzollo

In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples fin…

- Jean Marzollo

Both at-home and working mothers can overmeet their mothering responsibilities. In order to justify their jobs, working mothers can overnurture, over…

- Jean Marzollo

You may, or may not, have better child care instincts than your husband; but his can certainly be developed. If you don't respectthe natural parentin…

- Jean Marzollo

Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers have. If bad guilt …

- Jean Marzollo

The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive ques…

- Jean Marzollo