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A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation

Book by Susan Cheever · 4 quotes · Men, Mother, Allan Poe

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“The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.”