Vivian Gornick’s Mothers & Daughters
It’s not surprising, I suppose, that I should worry that being a full person is incompatible with being a mother: in the narrative I have of my own mother’s life, her tenure as a person appears to end with me.
Rachel Cusk & The Sanctity of the Writer’s Room
So why, we might ask, doesn’t she have manuscripts, notebooks, cocktail napkins—all the anticipated ephemera of the working writer?
It’s because she is a mother.