Awesome quote to share

The grad students are reading Ariel Gore's essay "High Risk: Who a Mother Should Be" for our discussion tomorrow, and this paragraph just jumped out at me:

The world tells us all--in a thousand ways--that there is no margin for error in mothering. But I am here to tell you that there is a margin, and it is wide. Just as the occasional piece of chocolate cake can't make you fat, just as a few days off won't make you a lousy employee, blowing it as a mother every once and a while doesn't spell disaster for your kids' psyches. It just doesn't.

And now I'm off to read Purplicious for the 27th time this week....