“You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots, made the money, made the decisions, so you signed up on his side, and fifteen years later when the women's movement came along with its incendiary manifestos telling you to avoid marriage and motherhood, it was as if somebody put a match to a pile of dry kindling.” IfsYearsMadeSidesDecisionSawsHappenedMovementShotsPatternsMotherhoodDryEpisodesFifteenDaddyAccumulationFifteen YearsManifestosKindlingRoost Book:Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey Source: Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey
“Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.” HardMotherMemoriesHealingCareersHappenedBabyMajorsMotherhoodDrivingEightyReconciliationHaving A BabyReclamation Book:Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey Source: Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey
