A woman will not understand what true dependency is until she is cradling her own infant in her arms; nor will she likely achieve the self-confidence she craves until she has withstood, and transcended, the weight of responsibility a family places upon her — a weight that makes all the paperwork and assignments of her in-basket seem feather-light.
What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2009) - ISBN: 9781439127742