Daily Inspiration Quote by Margot Kidder

There’s something bracing about how unsentimental this is: not “I healed,” not “I found myself,” but I went to work. Margot Kidder frames her suffering as a problem with a diagnosis, a paper trail, and an action plan. The phrasing borrows the language of school and labor, two places where you’re expected to show up even when you’d rather collapse. That’s the point. It’s a refusal to romanticize breakdown as mystery or genius; it’s the gritty, unglamorous posture of someone treating her own mind like a case file she has to learn.

The subtext is also a quiet rebellion against the way women in public life are encouraged to narrate pain: either as scandal (the “messy” celebrity) or as inspiration (the triumphant comeback). Kidder’s line splits the difference. She admits fracture without inviting voyeurism. “Homework” implies humility and discipline, not confession. It suggests she’s reclaiming authorship over her story by becoming a student of it, instead of a tabloid subject.

Context matters because Kidder’s life was repeatedly filtered through an icon: Lois Lane, the competent, fearless woman who always knows the right question to ask. Here, Kidder turns that investigative energy inward. The intent isn’t self-blame; it’s agency. She’s saying: I wasn’t a headline, I was a person doing the work - and the work, like homework, is ongoing, sometimes tedious, sometimes lonely, and still worth doing.