Quotation by Barbara Schapiro

One other contradiction or paradox that I've discovered as a working mother is that children, despite having obviously curtailed my freedom, have also brought me a new freedom that I hadn't anticipated. They've liberated me from the sorts of petty career or work anxieties that formerly were capable of obsessing me, especially the need for approval from those in authority.
Barbara Schapiro
Barbara Schapiro. Mother Journeys, ed. Maureen T. Reddy, Martha Roth, Amy Sheldon, section 3 (1994).
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