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Motherhood Deferred (1994)

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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.

Anne Taylor Fleming

Anne Taylor Fleming (20th century), U.S. author and essayist. Motherhood Deferred, ch. 4 (1994).

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