'People don’t talk enough about how tiring, boring, enraging, time-consuming, expensive, and thankless parenthood is,' Ellmann said.
, but I also wouldn’t say I am 100 percent of who I think I could be. The fact of the matter is that, even with child care and as equal a partner as I could hope for in a patriarchal system, I have to fight hard to be a productive writer and to be politically engaged, and I continually fall short of doing as much as I’d ideally like to do because so much of my time, energy, and brain space is devoted to taking care of small children.
interview. “People don’t talk enough about how tiring, boring, enraging, time-consuming, expensive, and thankless parenthood is. Why must we keep pretending it’s a joy?” she said. “Sure, there are delightful elements: Children are endearing and fascinating, and if you have some, you get to play with toys again and read children’s books and remember your childhood.
There is a long, ongoing history of authors and artists in particular struggling with the idea of motherhood and art. It’s a conversation that should continue, but if it is going to be honest, there needs to be space for women like Ellmann to speak some of the darker truths. “How is it unimaginable that a mother can love mothers, respect them for all the work they do,” Sian Cain, the
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