“Motherhood has become a battleground on which prejudice and class rese...” — Kim Brooks Quote

“Motherhood has become a battleground on which prejudice and class resentment can be waged without ever admitting that's what we're doing.”

“I attended a middling high school in central Virginia in the mid-'90s, so there were no lofty electives to stoke my artistic sensibility - no A.P. art history or African-American studies or language courses in Mandarin or Portuguese. I lived for English, for reading.”

“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.”

“With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you're particularly tired, but most of the time, you're fine. You spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how you can get more sleep, but really, you're better off just giving up and admitting that you're not going to, so forget about it.”

“To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.”