“There was something so valuable about what happened when
one became a mother. For me it was the most liberating thing that ever
happened…Liberating because the demands that children make are not the demands
of a normal 'other.' The children’s demands on me were things that nobody else
ever asked me to do. To be a good manager. To have a sense of humor. To deliver
something that somebody else could use. And they were not interested in all the
things that other people were interested in, like what I was wearing or if I
were sensual. Somehow all of the baggage that I had accumulated as a person
about what we valuable just fell away. I could not only be me—whatever that
was—but somebody actually needed me to be that.” –Toni Morrison
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