Angie Harmon Quotes

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

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 expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

I don't think I can be too hard on myself.

'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone.

I have a natural instinct to feel guilty and that I've let people down. I've apologized in more songs than 'Back to the Shack.' Going back to our second record, the closing lines are 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.' It's definitely part of my personality.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

I am unfortunately a perfectionist at heart, so it's really hard to allow myself to not be good.

I'm always so hard on myself.

I used to blame myself for a lot of things, and I apologise loads. I don't do it any more, but when I was in the studio - and it was my song - I'd say 'sorry' every time I got a note wrong.

Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.

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 a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.

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 kind of learned that I am way too tough of a critic on myself and that other people are not judging me as harshly as I judge myself, so I need to give myself a break.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

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.

There's this constant guilt that comes with parenting. You always feel like you're never enough. If you're confident in your parenting, you probably suck at it.