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

“An uneducated person has little chance of happiness. He cannot enjoy reading, he cannot understand any complicated music, he does not know what to do with himself if he has no job. How many times have I heard my friends say, ' I want to leave my boring job because I want to write, because I want to catch up with goings on in the theatre, because I want to travel and because I want to be with my family. '
The uneducated man has no such choices. Once he has lost his boring job, he feels he's lost his life. That is unfair.”
― 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

“Every woman should be free to live the life she chooses.”
― Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood