"In the early months after my daughter was born, I thought it was surely the hormones surging through my body that made me, someone who had never been interested in babies, find my daughter's every move endlessly fascinating... nearly two years later, I find myself shoveling sand into a plastic turtle with genuine enthusiasm."
"For my generation - and, I'd argue, especially for women in my generation - the decision of whether to have a child has become highly fraught, tied up with our desires for fulfilling careers and our willingness to risk a shift in identities."
"Having a child has been extraordinary. I came very close to not doing it. And if I had not, that life would have been a good one, too, just a different one."
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