Word: motherhood
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...Motherhood also prompted a shift in her priorities. "It changes the way you work. I used to just go into a studio and just stay there until the album was done. I could be completely selfish and immerse myself," she says. "[Being a mother] made me stronger as a person. To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend...
...front door, pushing her three-month-old son in his stroller. "I'm really...whatchamacallit," she said. "Tired?" I asked her. "The baby's not...you know." "Sleeping?" I asked. Laura's eyes had that familiar pinwheeling quality I remembered from my own first months of motherhood--that hallucinatory period when a mother's heart is opened wide, even as her eyelids flutter shut. No matter what the poets say about the ethereal joys of parenthood, any exhausted parent knows it is hard to concentrate on anything--sex, eating, finally changing out of your sweatpants--if you've become...
...Motherhood also prompted a shift in her priorities. "It changes the way you work. I used to just go into a studio and just stay there until the album was done. I could be completely selfish and immerse myself," she says. "[Being a mother] made me stronger as a person. To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend...
...were used to more programmed lives in the workplace, and they bring this to their home." Notes Peggy Orenstein, author of Flux, a book based on interviews with women across the country: "There's more pressure to be a perfect mother. Listening to women talk about their expectations of motherhood is like listening to teenage girls talk about weight. You can never be thin enough--and you can never be a good enough mother...
...women are opting to have children and raise them "on their own" [SOCIETY, Aug. 28]. Is this decision in the best interests of the child? Would any child choose such a situation over having a traditional mom and dad? Which is morally more fundamental: the woman's "right" to motherhood by any means necessary or the child's birthright to both a father and a mother? EDWARD P. WITMAN Toms River...