“That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were not happy, not mine, not my friends'. That's probably why the myth so endures, because of the dissonance in our lives between what actually went on at home and what went on up there on those TV screens where we were allegedly seeing ourselves reflected back.” HomeCoursesMemoriesOur LivesSeeingMinesTvsMy FriendsEndureMythScreensBlissNot HappyDissonance 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
