Harriet Lerner Quote

Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie").

The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives (ed. Harpercollins, 1993)