"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless is mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection."

Family, Mother, Idea, Imperfection, Uncertainty

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"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless is mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection."

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Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."

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"Fear is the mother of morality."

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"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"

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"It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species."

Equality

"There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear."

Family

"Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left."

Wisdom

"The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules."

Time

"Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one."

Man

"Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen."

Family

"Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life."

People

"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."

Being

"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."

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"The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers."

Woman