Overwhelmed by Brigid Schulte

Author:Brigid Schulte
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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BRIGHT SPOT: MOTHER NATURE

Women are just as prone as other apes to worry about the well-being of new babies. But what hunter-gatherer mothers do not do postpartum is refuse to let anyone else come near or hold their baby. This is an important difference … Babies are never left alone and are constantly held by someone, but that someone is not invariably the mother.

—Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Mothers and Others

She [the Angel in the House] was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish. She excelled in the difficult arts of family life. She sacrificed herself daily. If there was chicken, she took the leg; if there was a draught she sat in it—in short she was so constituted that she never had a mind or a wish of her own, but preferred to sympathize always with the minds and wishes of others.

—Virginia Woolf, “Professions for Women”

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