“Myra subsided into outraged and sulky silence. Her romantic dream of motherhood had been riven into sharp-edged fragments by late-night feedings, constant diaper washing, and a baby who persisted in looking and acting like a baby, not like a young hero.”

—  Sheri S. Tepper , book The Gate to Women's Country

Source: The Gate to Women's Country (1988), Chapter 10 (p. 88)

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