She told me many times that she didn’t like children. She would tell me how others would ooh and aah over babies and she found it so strange—she could not figure out what they were all excited about. A blob that drools and cries? But the culture she grew up in did not allow her the option of not having children—it was just what was expected. I never felt she actually wanted any of us, though, or even had a maternal bone in her entire body. Her culture also made it impossible for her to exert any power over her life. Quite often, unfortunately, in misogynistic societies, mothers are vicious to
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