I’ll be a mother someday, I said
He said, You’ll need a man for that.
I replied,
I didn’t say I wanted to be pregnant.
I said I wanted to be a mother.
You don’t need anybody but a child for that.
Update: 22 Sep 2023 – I wrote this post when I was much younger and knew far less about gender and feminism. I listened to this podcast today and I feel proud of younger me for that clarity on motherhood, even if I didn’t have words to express it.
An unexpected reunion made me have to think about people and the wounds we inflict on each other.
The weekend draws nearer & my dread mounts. It looms the way Beast must have loomed to Beauty before she met his gentle side. There’s no workshopping ennui.
This is what the stars have to say for me today: The analytical side of your brain is about to do battle with the emotional side of your brain. Which side do you think will win? This prizefight won’t be bloody, but it will have a conclusive winner. The losing…
We treat infidelity differently depending upon the gender of the cheater. How can we hold a uniform idea of justice across genders then?
Content Marketing, yet another buzzword added to the business lexicon. Let’s not go the jargon way. Let’s just talk.
Do you remember your last kiss? Everyone remembers their first. But kisses lose significance as we get older.
@ aparna: Thengyu!
@ rambler: I didn’t quite get that. I’d guess every child needs both a mother and a father. In the context of my post women have been playing both roles in some cases for far longer than men have now.
LMAO.. congrats on moving XX to its home 🙂
That child could be him as well
I like muchly the template to the old blog. This one is nice, too.
I so agree with that. Have had that thought for long. People, always, only see what they wanna see. 🙂
lol cool! i even agree on that! 😀
hmm do you think the child you need to become a mother, needs a father?
ramblers last idea: Wisdom from a TV show-3