Quotes by Kim Brooks - Page 2

The desire to keep television out of our son's life was one of the few parenting priorities my husband and I agreed on from the beginning. We debated the pros and cons of co-sleeping, of pacifiers, of chemical-free crib mattresses and baby sign language. The television question, on the other hand, was a no-brainer.
Kim Brooks /
Parenting
No Brainer
Priorities
Agreed
Cons
Crib
Debated
Pros
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When I read stories of suffering, I still feel something. It seems inhuman not to. At the same time, I'm more aware than ever of how little my feeling is worth, of how - if we are to truly keep alive the conditions that make ethical life possible - it is not empathy that's needed but insight, organization, and action.
Kim Brooks /
Alive
Conditions
Ethical
Inhuman
Insight
Needed
Organization
Suffering
Same Time
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I've written out itineraries for baby sitters with years of experience. I've gotten up in the middle of the night and stood over my children's sleeping bodies just to make sure they're breathing, and breathing well. In short, I'm the worst Jewish mother in the world. I make Alexander Portnoy's mother look like a laid-back Earth mama.
Kim Brooks /
Earth
Mama
Middle
Night
Worst
Jewish
Alexander
Bodies
Short
Gotten
Sleeping
Stood
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I always knew my mother was different, different from the other mothers in the way she dressed, the way she spoke, but most obviously, the way she mothered. I remember a slumber party where, instead of a sleeping bag, she urged me to bring a small, inflatable mattress because the dust on the floor was liable to aggravate my allergies.
Kim Brooks /
Dust
Liable
Slumber
Mother Always Me
Always Me Remember
Aggravate
Bag
Dressed
Me Remember Always
Floor
Mattress
Mothers
Sleeping
Urged
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We're contemptuous of 'distracted' working mothers. We're contemptuous of 'selfish' rich mothers. We're contemptuous of mothers who have no choice but to work, but also of mothers who don't need to work and still fail to fulfill an impossible ideal of selfless motherhood. You don't have to look very hard to see the common denominator.
Kim Brooks /
Common Denominator
Contemptuous
Distracted
Impossible
Motherhood
Rich
Selfish
Selfless
Choice
Denominator
Fail
Fulfill
Ideal
No Choice
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As an angsty teenager and college student, I used to mock people who lived in gated communities, who were so afraid of the unfamiliar world they had to erect a physical boundary to keep it at bay. But now I wonder, aren't the boundaries we draw with Facebook just as secure as a man-made moat or an underpaid security guard manning a booth?
Kim Brooks /
Boundaries
Mock
Secure
Teenager
Underpaid
Unfamiliar
Wonder
World Keep People
World People Security
Bay
Booth
College Student
Communities
Student
Man-Made
Draw
Erect
Facebook
Guard
Physical
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Every time we watch a little story play out inside our head, we're fantasizing, whether we realize it or not, and it seems to me that, though succumbing to fantasies about other people can be dangerous or self-defeating, the act of fantasizing itself is also an essential part of being human, of being capable of both abstraction and empathy.
Kim Brooks /
Abstraction
Being Human
Capable
Dangerous
Essential
Every Time
Fantasies
Self-Defeating
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I don't want to believe it - that parenting itself makes art hard, that you must always sacrifice one for the other, that there is something inherently selfish and greedy and darkly obsessive in the desire to care as much about the thing you are writing or making as you do about the other humans in your life. What parent would want to believe this?
Kim Brooks /
Parenting
Greedy
Obsessive
Sacrifice
Selfish
Life Art Always
Inherently
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