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“Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.”
― Head Above Water
― Head Above Water
“But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change this, it is still a man's world, which women will always help to build.”
― The Joys of Motherhood
― The Joys of Motherhood
“Every woman should be free to live the life she chooses.”
― The Joys of Motherhood
― The Joys of Motherhood
“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?”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“To destroy the institution is not to abolish motherhood. It is to release the creation and sustenance of life into the same realm of decision, struggle, surprise, imagination, and conscious intelligence, as any other difficult, but freely chosen work.”
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
― Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
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Nada’s 2025 Year in Books
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