To be a woman who wants children means you are racing against a countdown timer. This is especially true if you want biological children. Mothers who are too young get judged. Mothers who are too old get judged. You need to be roughly thirty-three, but you have to look twenty-seven. Anything older and you are geriatric, you are infirm, you are past your expiration date. Anything younger and you’ve wasted your best years.
