We have only pieces of an analysis and the barest fragments for any vision of the way things could be. That the experience of mothering changes one; that it is learned; that men, in our culture, do not learn this; that women are not in power; that some children are called bastards; that the children of fathers who will feed them and who can are well fed; that those without fathers are more often not well fed; that a mother is asked to give up her life for her children; that mothers are idealized; that mothers are hated; that children are unhappy… that women go mad; that the order of life as we
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