"I Went Into Motherhood Determined Not To Lose Myself In It."
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"I Went Into Motherhood Determined Not To Lose Myself In It."
- I went to a women’s college. I am in therapy. I read tarot cards and write about feelings for a living. From a purely stereotypical standpoint, one might expect me to embrace terms like “reparenting” and “inner child” and “self-mothering.” But in practice, they make me want to ooze somewhere outside myself, like the emotional equivalent of a Cadbur... See more
from I Cried While Writing This
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Tillie Olsen wrote: “In the twenty years I bore and reared my children . . . the simplest circumstances for creation did not exist.” It was a physical problem, a time problem; it was also a question of selfhood. “The obligation to be physically attractive and patient and nurturing and docile and sensitive and deferential . . . contradicts and must
... See morefrom The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips
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“care has curdled”
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