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When 1970s feminism hit the United States, women demanded the right to natural childbirth and to have their husband or another support person in the delivery room. My mother gave birth to me during this time.

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.