The Quiet Part Out Loud On Babies

That is what society, and fertility-age women, value. It's not really motherhood -- it's the next step in a story you told yourself about who you are.

Babies are (mostly) cute and sweet and do cute things and for multiple people in any given room with them, they represent a new hope and a new beginning. One of the most profound quotes I’ve ever seen in some bullshit modern digital newsletter was when Anne Helen Petersen wrote, “Every baby is part of a story a woman tells herself about who she is.” Tha…