"Parenting is hard. As anyone who has gone through the process and had enough leisure (and still functioning brain cells) to reflect on it knows, a lot of it is a crap shoot. Things go wrong that you have no control over, and on occasion, things also go right, and you have no control over those, either. The experience is scary and exhilarating and often humiliating, not because you’re disappointed in your kids necessarily, but because you’re disappointed in yourself"

- Elizabeth Kolbert, New yorker Magazine, on reaction to Amy Chua’s new book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”