Motherhood
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Motherhood
I used to watch as she read Ms. magazine, sitting upright, at the dining room table. She came of age during second-wave feminism, when women kind of had a choice and kind of didn’t. This made my mom’s ambivalence about motherhood starker and more insistent: It’s within the realm of possibility that my mom’s life could have gone a different, more... See more
Elise Loehnen • Opinion | The Lies Mothers Tell Themselves and Their Children
It’s my son’s first birthday so in true millennial fashion I’m going to talk about me:
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Indra Nooyi is an Indian-American business executive who served as the Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, one of the world's largest food and beverage companies. She was born on October 28, 1955, in Madras (now Chennai), India. Nooyi is widely recognized for her leadership and contributions to the... See more
instagram.comYou can love your kids deeply and hate being a mom. You can hold your children to the bone and still proclaim how sucky it is to be a female parent, in America at least, with our lack of paid family leave or high-quality day care and the cultural insistence that “good women” should stake their entire lives on the opportunity.
Elise Loehnen • Opinion | The Lies Mothers Tell Themselves and Their Children
From Sheila Heti, Motherhood:
“Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free”
“I don’t know why I don’t do the obvious thing — instead of fantasising about other lives, why not try to imagine what it’s like to be me, and live the life I’m living now”
“Happily we run away from even the brightest and best things in our lives, because we are
... See moreParenthood likewise forces an encounter with the illogic of the market: good fortune means getting to pay someone less than you make to do a job that’s harder and probably more important than your own.