ORIGINALS
Read interviews, reflections, commentary and original writing from authors, poets, anthropologists and more for different perspectives on motherhood.
Originals … with anthropologist Dr Susie Kilshaw
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'It is so very hard to accept that one isn’t responsible for a miscarriage and that nothing can be done to save a pregnancy such as this.'
Originals … with writer Nicola Brooks-Williamson
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'Defining home since becoming a mother has been a roller-coaster of emotions.'
Originals … with writer B.J. Woodstein
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'Motherhood is treated as something other, rather than as something that is one aspect of a woman'
Originals … with poet Aoife Lyall
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'I will not tell you to treasure every moment, neither will I tell you to wish it away. All I can say, all I have learned, is this: don’t be yourself: be all of yourself.'
Originals … with poet Kuli Kohli
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'I thought motherhood was for someone else / something I never thought possible. / Yet, I wanted my own family, a unit of love, / something I could call my own.'
Originals … with poet Kate Thirlwall
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'... becoming a mother is a process and one that continually deepens, shifts and grows.'