“So many things can balk a woman from bearing (including a man who wields a powderless gun. Though I must say that in my whole life I’ve never heard a single husband take the blame for a barren house, not even when put to the proof with three childless wives in a row).” FeminismInfertility Book:The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: The Continuing Adventures of Judith Shakespeare Source: The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: The Continuing Adventures of Judith Shakespeare
“I thought back on the near-eternity of our life together. Thirty years, the pith of which we’d spent in the swamp of boy-raising, where the channels of passion get child-choked.” MarriageParenting Book:The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: The Continuing Adventures of Judith Shakespeare Source: The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: The Continuing Adventures of Judith Shakespeare