"The boredom of the young mother is life-wrecking, mad-making. [...] Because - I say again - motherhood is a myth and woman was not made to shop, clean and burble at baby all day on her own. She needs to combine motherhood with other creative activities and sociability. The non-working mother is another myth, or at least the intervention of the Victorian imagination: it was then a sort of status symbol to have a swooning, trussed-up, inactive wife. But this is an anomaly. Everywhere else in the world, and in history, women have worked. They have worked alongside their husbands in the fields: medieval woman was equal to man in this respect. Women were breer-brewers, bread-bakers, gardeners, businesswomen." (S.24/25)
Wie wohl es tut, so etwas zu lesen. Was nicht heißt, dass ich jeden Satz in diesem Buch mittragen würde. Der Hass auf den Kapitalismus finde ich beispielsweise manchmal etwas mühsam. Aber allein das oben erwähnte Zitat war's schon wert! Und die FAZ fasst das recht nett zusammen:
Und zum Abschluß noch ein weiteres nettes Zitat (S. 180): "The idle parent will never sacrifice him- or herself to his or her children. He will carry on with his own life and the kids will learn and grow in the slipstream. But he will respect his little creatures and observe their ways with interest. [...] Rather than trying to follow a list of somebody else's rules, we must concentrate first and foremost on our mental attitude towards the children."
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