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I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.