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
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PROFILE
Samantha Parent Walravens is an award-winning journalist, writer and mother of four children.
As an editor for PC World Magazine in the mid-90s, she wrote extensively on business and technology, and was
responsible for creating the magazine’s
first website. She was a manager of product marketing at a Silicon Valley
Internet company, Tumbleweed Communications, which she helped grow from a 20-person private start-upto a successful,
publicly traded company. Most recently, Samantha was the Features Editor for The Ark newspaper in Tiburon, CA,
where she has written extensively on politics, business and community issues. She is currently working on a book
entitled, I'm No Superwoman: True Stories of Kids, Career and the Chaos
of Modern Motherhood.
In addition, she has written a children's book entitled What Do Real
Princesses Do? and
is working on a follow-up, Prince Percivale and the Heart of Gold. 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.
EDUCATION
The University of Virginia
M.A. in Literature and Women's Studies
Princton University
B.A. in English Literature,
Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude
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