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  • I don't think working mothers judge the stay-home mothers – they know they've made the big sacrifice to be with their kids – but I think some judging may go on the other way round.

    An Interview with Allison Pearson 2010

  • I am a stay-home homeschooling mother of four children, ages six to twenty months.

    When Children Are Grown 2009

  • The news of Snooki's book deal frustrates me even more than when a comfortably situated stay-home housewife who dabbles in scrapbooking and blog writing tells me in superior tones that it shouldn't matter -- that she writes for the love of writing, because sheneeds to, because it's a calling.

    Jane Devin: A Writer's Rant About Simon & Schuster's Dip Into the Celebrity Cesspool Jane Devin 2011

  • When asked if she was surprised that the popularity of the in-person, out-loud Moth series grew during the same era as the stay-home Internet, Ms. Burns said no.

    Like a Storyteller to a Flame Lizzie Simon 2012

  • Katherine Huge , a 46-year-old stay-home mother, hid her appliances as part of the $97,000 kitchen renovation in her Cumming, Ga., home.

    Kitchens Play Hide and Sleek Anjali Athavaley 2011

  • As a working mother, I often look at stay-home Mums with a mixture of envy and anxiety – are they judging me for not being with my kids full-time?

    An Interview with Allison Pearson 2010

  • David Walter Banks/LUCEO for The Wall Street Journal Katherine Huge, a 46-year-old stay-home mother, hid her appliances as part of the $97,000 kitchen renovation in her Cumming, Ga., home.

    Redesigning the Kitchen 2011

  • President of the DC Volunteer Lawyers Program, a group of stay-home lawyers who do pro bono work in their spare time.

    Third World America Stories Archive The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • It started when I was a stay-home mom with no "IRL" friends so my whole social life took place online.

    On the Importance of Unplugging 2010

  • This is not yet the world of the working moms I know however -- and quite a few of the part-time or stay-home moms chose that route precisely because they wanted somebody to have time to do the cooking.

    Elizabeth Gregory: Can Working Parents Go Green? 2009

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