I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their wan unmiraculous lives.

- Marni Jackson

Why are we, the most medicalized of societies, a culture in pain?

- Marni Jackson

At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.

- Marni Jackson

There seems to be a hole in the culture where mothers went. Then, when their kids went off to school or stopped having ear infections every three wee…

- Marni Jackson

This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with a…

- Marni Jackson

Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.

- Marni Jackson

The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick.

- Marni Jackson

Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to the dry cleaners?…

- Marni Jackson

When a mother comes home with her new baby, she will find her abstractions are all concrete now. 'Freedom' now means being able to take a shower. 'Mo…

- Marni Jackson