“Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?” BirthAngerMotherhoodRagePregnancyBabies Book:Nightbitch Source: Nightbitch
“¿Tenía ella la culpa de haberse tragado el muy generalizado mito social de que si una mujer joven recibía una formación de primera podría entonces librarse de las ataduras históricas de la maternidad?” FreedomEducationExpectationsMotherhoodMyth Book:Nightbitch Source: Nightbitch
“Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman.” IndependenceParentingPossessionMotherhoodSecrets Book:Nightbitch Source: Nightbitch
“Ella se había titulado en una universidad muy renombrada; mucho mejor que a la que había ido él. Ella se había sacado dos másteres; mientras que él, ninguno (ni tampoco se había sacado un bebé del cuerpo). Aquello no era un concurso, ¿no? No, pues claro que no.” CompetitionMotherhoodInequalityGender RolesAcademia Book:Nightbitch Source: Nightbitch
“Nightbitch herself explained that her work was meant to underscore the brutality of motherhood, how a child’s first act is violence against the woman who created it. Yet the mother loves the child with the most powerful love known in this universe” FeminismMotherhoodFemale RageNightbitch Book:Nightbitch Source: Nightbitch