The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).
Christopher HitchensTags: sexuality literary-criticism sex literature magic fable fantasy-literature childishness childlessness
There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one of the few who didn't have children, who lived alone, who was still kinda young. Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind, a woman with no child could be explained only by vast untrammelled calamity.
Maybe she just doesn't like children.
Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.
Tags: women children singles calamity childlessness
We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.
Thomas McGuaneTags: children problems parenthood childlessness
At the cry of a new born salt is being sprinkle at the wound of a barren woman
Peter AdejimiTags: life feminine childlessness barrenness
No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy.
Tobsha LearnerTags: feminism persecution tremble patriarchy single-women childlessness the-root tobsha-learner
Page 1 of 1.
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.