Kathryn Hahn Quotes

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

Mother's Day, like motherhood itself, is fraught with peril. There are so many ways to get it wrong, so many opportunities to disappoint and be disappointed.

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

Certainly, being a 'perfect' mother is unachievable.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men.

High expectations produce high frustrations.

Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

I'm pretty sure the feeling of inadequacy is universal for moms.

All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn't breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children's mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

'Don't worry about it, and you'll be great,' said nobody, ever.

When expectations are really high, you're doomed.

I don't feel pressure. I do feel like if someone can see me slip up, you know, they would love it because it would complete the family craziness.

I think a lot of women feel pressure to have kids, especially when you get engaged. And for me, I'm like, I don't want that pressure on myself.

Relegation - that's pressure.