Deena Emera

“Those feelings of contradiction in the moments after my son’s birth never went away. After his delivery, I was both lighter and heavier. <…> When I dropped my babies off at day care in the mornings, I was at once liberated and anguished. More generally—then and now—I’m consumed with an obsessive love for my children interspersed with the frequent desire to escape to a remote island where no one can bother me. If I had to choose one word to describe my experience of motherhood, it would be ambivalent or conflicted.”
― Deena Emera, A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be - Library Edition