Somehow the idea that bringing up children is a boring, time-consuming and restrictive activity which gets in the way of the important and exciting business of being a female person, has got to change. As I have said, I believe it to be a set of attitudes off the froth of society rather than from its roots. But the froth is what people see and it is not enough for children to be important, they have to be seen to be so, too.
New people are a creation, biologically and socially.
They are, ultimately, the point of everything else that anybody does and rather particularly the point of those activities which are most generally respected. Nobody has to undertake the particular form of creative activity which is the rearing of children, any more than anybody has to undertake the creative activity of any other profession. But those who choose to do so should be made aware that they stand with other creators. Being somebody's mother is far more than 'just a job'. But the present social situation puts so much emphasis on the self-fulfilling aspects of working outside the home that mothering is actually seen as something less.