Nada

“I was haunted by the stereotype of the mother whose love is 'unconditional'; and by the visual literary images of motherhood as a single-minded identity. If I knew parts of myself existed that would never cohere to those images, weren't those parts then abnormal, monstrous?”
― Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

“Yet the more I think about it the more I realise that we women set impossible standards for ourselves. That we make life intolerable for one another. I cannot live up to your standards, senior wife. So I have to set my own.”
― Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood

“Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.”
― Buchi Emecheta, Head Above Water

“We learn, often through painful self-discipline and self-cauterization, those qualities which are supposed to be 'innate' in us: patience, self-sacrifice, the willingness to repeat endlessly the small, routine chores of socializing a human being.”
― Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution