121 Quotes by Rachel Simmons

If parents shield their children from real feelings, kids falsely imagine their parents are in constant control of themselves - and may try to emulate them.

When your child believes you really respect what he's feeling, he'll be much more likely to trust you.

We learn best when we're intrinsically motivated - that is, when we try something new for the sheer enjoyment of the experience.

If smart phones had been around for women in the 1950s, 'The Feminine Mystique' might never have been written. The depression and ennui of housewives would have been blunted by Pinterest and Facebook.

Girls may love movies about fairytale princes, but their most captivating romance is with their friends.

Just like people date and break up, friends break up, too. 'Best friends forever' rarely ever happens; it's just that no one talks about it.

There are times in every friendship when you or your friend are too busy to call or are more focused on other relationships. It will hurt, but it's rarely personal. Making it personal usually makes things worse, and being too clingy or demanding can drive a friend even further away. Like people, friendships can get 'overworked' and need to rest.

Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.

When we frame women's choices in terms of extreme work or extreme mothering, women think they have to define themselves in terms of a single goal, everything else be damned.