”When we celebrate the birth of a new child, we pay joyous tribute to the enlargement of the human circle. Yet with every ’new addition’ there are new subtractions as well, inevitable diminishments, ’contractions’ (to use a particularly apt metaphor) of a woman’s lfe and range of experiences. In order to gain new life in motherhood, she must lose life. To mask the magnitude of this sacrifice with silence, guilt, and denial is to trivialize a genuinely heroic journey into selfhood.”

Ur The Mask of Mothrhood av Susan Haushart