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The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit
5.0
Clear, concise, empowering, funny when appropriate, and extremely accessible for everybody. It touches upon subjects such as motherhood, guilt, victimhood, how language and stories shape society, and lays all the bizarre structures in our society bare. The good thing is: the world is changing so fast at the moment, that some sentences in Solnit's essays are already dated. I think my only 'problem' with some of the essays was that I've read articles by other writers on that before. However, Solnit still knows to write it down in an extremely engaging way.
“There is no good answer to how to be a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.”
“As it happens, there are many reasons why I don’t have children: I am very good at birth control; though I love children and adore aunthood, I also love solitude; I was raised by unhappy, unkind people, and I wanted neither to replicate their form of parenting nor to create human beings who might feel about me the way that I felt about my begetters; I really wanted to write books, which as I’ve done it is a fairly consuming vocation. I’m not dogmatic about not having kids. I might have had them under other circumstances and been fine — as I am now.”
“There is no good answer to how to be a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.”
“As it happens, there are many reasons why I don’t have children: I am very good at birth control; though I love children and adore aunthood, I also love solitude; I was raised by unhappy, unkind people, and I wanted neither to replicate their form of parenting nor to create human beings who might feel about me the way that I felt about my begetters; I really wanted to write books, which as I’ve done it is a fairly consuming vocation. I’m not dogmatic about not having kids. I might have had them under other circumstances and been fine — as I am now.”