Opinion | The ‘Impossible Life’ of Equal Devotion to Art and Mothering
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Opinion | The ‘Impossible Life’ of Equal Devotion to Art and Mothering
We’re the generation of women who were given career-advice classes, not classes in home economics and mothering skills. Our ten-year plans were more likely to include buying a home, becoming a CEO and travelling through Europe, than popping a baby out. But like millions of women of our generation, we soon realised that those ten-year plans lacked s
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What if we normalize motherhood as a temporary job and not a woman's purpose?
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But the issue of children and who looks after them has become, in my view, profoundly political, and so it would be a contradiction to write a book about motherhood without explaining to some degree how I found the time to write it. For the first six months of Albertine’s life I looked after her at home while my partner continued to work. This exp
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