“It was palpable, all that wanting: Mother wanting something more, Dad wanting something more, everyone wanting something more. This wasn't going to do for us fifties girls; we were going to have to change the equation even if it meant . . . abstaining from motherhood, because clearly that was where Mother got caught.” IfsMotherGirlDadCaughtMotherhoodEquationsAbstaining Author:Anne Taylor Fleming
“We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.” WorldKindWarDreamMotherFatherDaughterDisappointmentSexualityIcePostsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiAmerican DreamWorld War ITenseSitcomCocktailsUnspokenCubes 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
