People think motherhood ...

People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.
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 Anne Enright

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There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.
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Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.
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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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