Elaine Heffner Quotes

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We do not suffer gladly human frailty or the limitations of life itself.  We need someone to blame for whatever frustration or deprivation we may have experienced in our lives. Too often that someone is mother.
— Elaine Heffner Mothering: The Emotional Experience of Motherhood After Freud and Feminism

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Motherhood today is a high risk profession.  Charges of malpractice have not been reserved for doctors and lawyers alone. Mothers have had firsthand experience with the peculiar belief in our culture that if something goes wrong, someone is at fault.
— Elaine Heffner Mothering: The Emotional Experience of Motherhood After Freud and Feminism

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