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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)
         

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)


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