Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter. It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day. The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction. Milton R. Sapirstein Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
All women become like their mothers.
That is their tragedy. That is his.