Because she is the channel of life, woman as mythic mother lives at one remove from life. A woman who defines herself through her fertility has no other option. So a woman who feels she has been deprived of motherhood is trebly deprived-of children; of the value of herself as mother; and of her own self, as autonomous being.
( Angela Carter )
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