"Motherhood is so often viewed as something where we’re supposed to put everybody else ahead of us, where we have to be selfless in order to be called a good mom, or we also have to be these robots who get everything done for everybody else,” she said. “But something that I feel like I learned from Alberta, Berdis and Louise is that that’s actually not what motherhood should be about. … It instead should be the influence, the power, the strength that mothers bring to their children.”

Source: Washington Post May 09, 2021 11:01 UTC