With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
—Isadora Duncan
The only thing that seems eternal and natural in motherhood is ambivalence.
—Jane Lazarre
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
—Barbara Kingsolver
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
—Robert Browning
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists
pointed
out that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
—Barbara Ehrenreich
About Samantha
Samantha
Parent Walravens is an award-winning journalist, writer and mother of four children. She was an editor for
PC World magazine, where she wrote on business and technology, before leaving journalism to chase the “Internet
dream” in the mid-90s. She has since returned to her true passion, writing, and has authored articles on
topics including politics, business, lifestyle and women’s issues. She is currently working on an anthology
of essays, I'm No Superwoman: True Stories of Kids, Career and the Chaos
of Modern Motherhood.
Samantha is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University and has a Masters in Literature and Women’s Studies from the University of Virginia.