Women are naturally competitive. That’s what drives women to form cliques at early age. – Leslie Morgan Steiner
My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom. – Leslie Morgan Steiner
Working moms elevate themselves above stay-at-home moms, and stay-at-home moms try to put down working moms. It’s a war in which both sides are trying to put the other one down. – Leslie Morgan Steiner
Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past. – Leslie Morgan Steiner
Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships – in other words, in families – the last place we would want or expect to find violence. – Leslie Morgan Steiner
My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the last couple you’d imagine enmeshed in domestic violence. – Leslie Morgan Steiner
The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom’s experience. – Leslie Morgan Steiner
Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability. – Leslie Morgan Steiner
