“Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?”
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I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough, ' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
