Word: motherhood
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...days, internet searches were easy. You typed in a term--say, motherhood--and Yahoo and other engines spit out a list of sites ranked by human editors or by a formula, such as how many times the word had appeared on a site. There was a purity to the old way, but something was missing: a profit stream...
...running the state from home would be like “taking a correspondence course.” And even Secretary of State William Galvin went on the record criticizing Swift, telling the Herald that “it remains to be seen” whether Swift can balance motherhood and being governor. “It’s a novel challenge,” Galvin told the Herald...
...thought that it would elicit my views on teaching and writing. I thought that I would talk about motherhood," Morrison said. "I thought that I would talk about Gerard Manley Hopkins or about how poverty is romanticized in American culture...
...four years old, a lisping munchkin with deep-blue saucer-eyes had almost fully intuited the myriad arcane, inexplicable rules of English grammar, and was constructing extensive stream-of-consciousness narratives on a wide range of topics from proper dining etiquette for tropical fish to the telos of motherhood. Her speech was even peppered with endearing neologisms applicable to her world (like "encenter" meaning "ready for the new day," a word which I now find quite useful...
Given the passion each author musters, mothers will be relieved that Crittenden, for the moment, has the last word. Though her thesis--that parenting imposes unfair penalties on women--is as old as motherhood itself, she stitches together recent research with a brief history of wifery and turns out a fresh, persuasive argument. Inflexible workplaces, financial inequities in marriage (and divorce), and the ineligibility of unpaid caregivers for the government's major social-insurance programs make motherhood the "single biggest risk factor for poverty in old age," she writes. Her recipe for "bring[ing] children up without putting women down...