“For many women,’ she said, ‘having a child is their central experience of creativity, and yet the child will never remain a created object; unless,’ she said, ’the mother’s sacrifice of herself is absolute, which mine never could have been, and which no woman’s ought to be these days.”

“For many women,’ she said, ‘having a child is their central experience of creativity, and yet the child will never remain a created object; unless,’ she said, ’the mother’s sacrifice of herself is absolute, which mine never could have been, and which no woman’s ought to be these days.”

— Rachel Cusk