But because the level and quality of professional commitment and demand for both career and motherhood are now very much the same. Young career women, when they have babies, are discovering that they do not wish to give as much of their time or themselves to the office as the successful pursuit of career entails. No doubt to their own surprise, it is motherhood that now engages some considerable part of their professional energy and aspirations. Her very existence is a career. No indeed, I am not.
Freedom is after all a blessing.
And this particular freedom is an incomparable blessing. Two hundred years ago I, a woman in her late sixties with grown children and grandchildren, might easily have been dead by now. Certainly I would have been old, possibly bent, very likely toothless, and worn away by toil and childbirth. In many respects my life would have been far, far less rich. In order to enjoy as I do the presence of four surviving healthy children and ten healthy and beautiful grandchildren, I might have had to endure the burial of at least an equal number.