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Our children—God willing—will grow up and move out, will establish their own lives and families, our importance in their lives shrinking and shifting so that we are no longer the sun but some outer planet that upon further inspection actually may just be a defunct satellite stuck in their orbit.
Nora McInerny • Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
but then her little girl came along, and her little girl’s daddy left, and before you knew it . . . she was one of them. The needy.
Gillian Flynn • The Grownup
How Motherhood Liberated Me
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One of the staples of being the mom of a little kid has been that at least
Jessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out
That night I eat a giant plate of pasta at the hotel bar for dinner and drink a martini and text with old friends. I sit on a couch in the lounge, half reading Mary Karr’s On Memoir and half watching people who are inexplicably younger than me living lives there is now no chance of me ever knowing except in this one little moment that I am watching
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Finding one’s role at seventeen is problem enough, without being handed somebody else’s script.
Joan Didion • Let Me Tell You What I Mean
popular culture, at least in America for the past forever years, what mothers do is seen as so unremarkable it’s not just an unimportant story, but not even a story at all.
Jessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out
the cut - june 11 - 2024What If Motherhood Isn’t Transformative at All?
We’re often told that becoming a parent will alter one’s identity. For me, the change never came.
By Anastasia Berg, editor of the Point
Art: March Avery, Evening Reading, 1972/© 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Courtesy of the artist, Private Collection, and BLU
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