Quote of the Day 5-14-10
… President Obama seems bent on packing the court with people who never had children, and would suggest that if you haven’t had your sleep disturbed for years on end; haven’t subjugated everything in your life to someone else’s interests… as opposed to subjugating everything to your career interests… if you haven’t seen your hopes and dreams grow up, charge off in their own direction and start talking back to you; if you haven’t dealt with abuse of authority and human rights issues sometimes encountered in dealings with obtuse school officials, class bullies and town sports leagues; then there’s a high risk your understanding of life may be somewhat… academic.
It’s a humbling experience, parenthood. As well as an inspiring one that gives life meaning. It also, as a friend of mine once put it, makes you sane. Even while it drives you crazy. Put another way, it’s part of the maturation thing.
Doesn’t the president know any soccer moms who went to a state school?
~Jules Crittenden, commenting on the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan, May 12
[HT: carder]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Ich weib nicht das ende.
I like this line about parenthood : “… an inspiring one that gives life meaning”
It makes you focus on others rather than yourself…it makes you selfless as opposed to this Culture of Death’s me, mine, my attitude…
Obama won’t get it…he’s a narcissist.
Wow! Well said, Jules Crittenden!
I hate to quibble b/c parenting is something that is very fulfilling and certainly humbling and selfless. However, I just find it so condescending to say that if someone hasn’t been a parent his/her life has been some sort of austere, academic, self-centered existence. A lot of people (I’m not saying Elena Kagan is one of them) devote their lives to things other than parenting and society is the better for it. I don’t think parenting is a pre-requisite to being a good justice or to more generally having a hands on, humble grasp of reality. Being a proponent of the legal slaughter of children? That’s quite another thing.
They way I see it, this is more of a commentary on the arrogance of the Washington elite than a knock on childless adults. There are those people who would avoid appointing a woman just because she is a parent out of fear that her time at her job would be compromised.
I understand what he was getting at . . . but still, it wouldn’t hurt him to remember that not all of us are childless by choice.