Society/Motherhood Contradictions
by Lauren Wilde · updated 4mo ago
Society/Motherhood Contradictions
by Lauren Wilde · updated 4mo ago
Lauren Wilde added 4mo ago
Lauren Wilde added 4mo ago
Lauren Wilde added 4mo ago
The truth is that motherhood is as beautiful as it looks on the congratulations cards, but it can also be a mess. It’s important to be honest about this. No real change is possible until working mothers stop trying to be all things to all people—perfect at work, perfect as partners, and perfect as mothers, with each role kept entirely separate. Rat
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But the issue of children and who looks after them has become, in my view, profoundly political, and so it would be a contradiction to write a book about motherhood without explaining to some degree how I found the time to write it. For the first six months of Albertine’s life I looked after her at home while my partner continued to work. This exp
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