“Women who refuse motherhood are also faced with the prejudice that they must therefore hate children, like the witches who dined out on small roasted bodies during sabbaths or cast fatal spells on their neighbor’s child. This is doubly exasperating. First, because it is far from true in most cases: it can even be a strong sympathy with children that makes you refrain from having your own, while others may choose to have them for deeply dubious reasons.”
