Motherhood
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Motherhood
motherhood is humbling:
despite all my attempts to distinguish myself, I’ve ended up like every other mother—on the floor, singing “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”
I have heard tales of creative rushes during the postpartum period, of women who ride the energy of human creation to power other creative acts. It is a beautiful idea, and one I would of course hope to experience. Make a human AND have a personal creative renaissance!? Yes, please. But alas, this is very, very far from my current state of affairs,... See more
Rachel Katz • Magic 8 Ball Mind
on mothering, productivity, and caring for an infant
Women of the World 1/100
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.comParenthood 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.
Jia Tolentino • Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?
I thought early motherhood would be gentle, beatific, pacific, tranquil: bathed in a soft light. But actually it was hard-core, edgy, gnarly. It wasn't pale pink; it was brown of shit and red of blood. And it was the most political experience of my life, rife with conflict, domination, drama, struggle, and power.
Matrescence Quotes by Lucy Jones
When children fall or fail it’s not to dad that they run, but to mom, and there’s nothing wrong with that. We’ve just been through three years of pain and loss; it is not our spiritual fathers that we need right now, it is our mamas.