“It’s bad enough that we tell jokes about our mothers-in-law. But we tell horror stories about our stepmothers. It was a stepmother who forced Cinderella to stay home with her head up a chimney while her grody stepsisters went to the ball. It was a stepmother who sent Hansel and Gretel into the forest with a pocketful of breadcrumbs.” CinderellaStepmothersStepsisters Book:Stepfathers Are People Too Source: Stepfathers Are People Too
“Stepmotherhood is not for the fainthearted. No woman marries a man because of his kids. She marries him in spite of them. The risks are too great and the rewards often are too small to be seen. No matter how or why you arrive on the scene, there is a good chance you will be regarded as a carpetbagger, capitalizing on a family's misfortune. If not the cause of it.” RewardsRisksStepmothers Book:Stepfathers Are People Too Source: Stepfathers Are People Too