“I had considered envying men before – I pretend to envy things like their higher incidence of ungrounded confidence and monomania – but I don’t really envy those things, and I’m not sure I even believe in them – but this, the covert-baby-having thing, was the first real thing.”

“I had considered envying men before – I pretend to envy things like their higher incidence of ungrounded confidence and monomania – but I don’t really envy those things, and I’m not sure I even believe in them – but this, the covert-baby-having thing, was the first real thing.”

— Rivka Galchen