Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.
Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.
To be a mother is a magical experience. The whole body is transformed by this.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Being a mother makes everything more urgent.
As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.
The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.