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The air outside rumbles as planes lift into the sky, while inside garbled announcements blare over the loudspeaker. Somewhere behind me, an older woman speaks in sharp, staccato Italian. But I don’t look away from the curb, my eyes trained on the crowded sidewalk outside the terminal, searching for her, anchoring my belief—and my entire future—on t
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the cut - june 11 - 2024What If Motherhood Isn’t Transformative at All?
We’re often told that becoming a parent will alter one’s identity. For me, the change never came.
By Anastasia Berg, editor of the Point
Art: March Avery, Evening Reading, 1972/© 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Courtesy of the artist, Private Collection, and BLU
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alina stefanescu, writer
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Tillie Olsen wrote: “In the twenty years I bore and reared my children . . . the simplest circumstances for creation did not exist.” It was a physical problem, a time problem; it was also a question of selfhood. “The obligation to be physically attractive and patient and nurturing and docile and sensitive and deferential . . . contradicts and must
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Verirrt? Das war doch unmöglich! In Paris, ihrer alten Heimatstadt? Claudette Toussaint blieb stehen, schüttelte ihr dichtes braunes Haar und blickte zurück in die Gasse, die sie in diese enge Seitenstraße geführt hatte, während sie versuchte, das Gefühl der Orientierungslosigkeit zu bekämpfen. Wie konnte das nur passieren?