A Mother Of A One-year-old Boy Is

My Ideals Told Me That Men And Women Could Both Go Out To Work And Be Truly Equal. My Children Told Me Something More Complicated, Something I Really Didn't Want To Hear. Their Need For Me Was Like The Need For Water Or Light: It Had A Devastating Simplicity To It.

You Learned That If You're Tired Enough, You Can Sleep Sitting Up. That The Unendurable Is Perfectly Endurable If You Just Take It A Minute At A Time, And When The Alternative Is No More Minutes Ever.

The Great Thing About Unrequited Love Is It's The Only Kind That Lasts.

For Centuries, The Question Of Men Needing To Comprehend Women Simply Didn't Arise. Men Were Valued According To How They Measured Up To The Manly Virtues.

A Father Is The Template Of A Man Nature Gives A Girl