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“If I’d continued along the sexually and economically exploitative path that every major artistic, educational, political and business institution lays out for girls like me, I would never have met my husband. I would have laughed or been enraged by his expectation that I abandon my so-called career to become a wife and mother. I would not know the unspeakable joy in being his wife. I could not have imagined the profound gratitude in holding our daughter for the first time, in nursing her, in simply watching her breathe.”
