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 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
Parenthood 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?
"Parent or childfree" used to be my framework for understanding a dividing difference of adult life. But aging and, yes, friendship, have taught me that there are so many experiences that binary doesn't capture: To want kids but not be able to have them, for physical or financial or logistical reasons. To not want kids but accidentally get pregnant... See more
from Ann Friedman
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
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