Word: motherhood
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...myself at a festival, where there is so much to see and write about. I saw the movie again at the public screening. The second time, not expecting a masterpiece, I found a film that pleased, impressed and touched me - a fully satisfying comedy-melodrama about the burden of motherhood, the power of sisterhood...
...life's little ironies that her decision to take time off for motherhood led to her most successful work. As she scrambles to wrap up the season, Rhimes has already started developing the news-correspondents show. And she's still under contract with Disney to deliver two more movies. Rhimes is adamant that she will remain closely involved with Grey's. "This is my other baby. I'm not leaving it," she says. And why would she? Babies have been great for her career...
...they rat out neighbors who don't sew their own Halloween costumes. Their children grow up thinking a woman's place is in the kitchen, or on the couch watching reruns of Ellen. They deny their own oppression, and their depression too. Blinded by their devotion to full-time motherhood, they ignore the scientific research on how day-care children have more verbal skills and less asthma...
When it was time to raise her three children, my mother—a Harvard graduate, an attorney, and a self-proclaimed feminist—decided to quit working to commit herself full-time to motherhood. A few years later, she returned to work part-time, allowing her to keep her foot in the door as a partner in a law firm, lobby for environmental causes, and volunteer at my siblings’ elementary school. Far from abandoning personal happiness for childrearing, she, like many women, found motherhood fulfilling—a choice that too many feminists view...
...mother has often told me, there has been no greater joy in her life than motherhood. As far as she is concerned, the slogging associated with full-time mothering is more satisfying than the slogging associated with having a full-time job. She has given up some professional successes, perhaps, but had she worked full-time when her children were young, she believes, she would have missed...