Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines The Status Of Women Quotes
Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons)
Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands.
For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.
Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.