“I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.” WayHas BeensFictionRolesIssuesExpectationsMotherhoodNonfictionConsumedFiction And NonfictionSocietal Expectations Author:Ayelet Waldman
“In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.” WayChildrenNamesMotherhoodTricksMannersGood ManFatherhoodGood MannersBribeWholesaleEmulation Book:Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays Source: Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays