"....motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others. Giving life is where it's at. 'Pro-maternity' propaganda has rarely been so extreme. They must be joking, the modern version of the double constraint: 'have babies, it's wonderful, you feel more fulfilled and feminine than ever,' but do it in a society in freefall in which paid work is a condition of social survival, but is guaranteed to no one, and especially not to women.....
Without children you will never be fulfilled as a woman, but bringing up kids in decent conditions is almost impossible. It is essential that women feel like failures--that they be made to feel as if they've made the wrong choice. We are held responsible for a failure that is in fact collective and cross-gender."
From King Kong Theory, translated from the French by Stephanie Benson
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