Writing and Motherhood

A quote that I thought was interesting from Writing and Motherhood was, "Mother's don't create works of art because all of their creative, aggressive drives find an outlet in the production of their children," (625).

I took this to mean that women are either procreative, as in have children, or they are creative. They can't be both. In class, someone brought up the quote, "Mother's don't write, they are written", and I think that these two quotes kind of work together, in the assumption the once women have children, that is all they can do. Their children run their lives and drain them of all other creative juices, and while I agree that children do tend to run the lives of mothers, I would disagree that women can either have children or they can be creative and produce writing or works of art. I think that there are women that can do both, and that just shows the strength in women's character.

-Jessica Mitchell