Opinion | The ‘Impossible Life’ of Equal Devotion to Art and Mothering
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Opinion | The ‘Impossible Life’ of Equal Devotion to Art and Mothering
The Women Who Refused to Choose Between Mothering and Artmaking
Jordan Troellerthereader.mitpress.mit.edu
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
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