“When men have it, no one seems to notice, they become astronauts or pilots or cartographers or criminals or poets. They don’t stay around long enough to know if they’ve fathered children or not. When women get it, well, it’s complicated, it’s just different.” “How?” I asked. “How is it different?” “Well, for instance, it’s not customary for a mother to not see her own girls for this many years, is it?” She had a point there.”
