• motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

    Adrienne Rich: motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
    Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company