Nia Vardalos Quotes

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

I'm not a good mother at all.

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules.

I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.

It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were.

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

As a mother, I'm constantly feeling like a failure.

I was never cut out to be a mother - I was no good.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die?

I'm terrible at posting regularly; I don't deserve the blog success!

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'

Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.

People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end.

I always thought of myself as inadequate. Kids of divorced parents always feel that way - that, on some subconscious level, they're responsible.

I feel overestimated.