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Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.

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

It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.