I came across this beautiful passage the other day and it reminded me how empowering it is to be a woman and a mother:
"There is nothing on earth like the moment of seeing one's first baby. Men scale other heights, but there is no height like this simple one, occurring continuously throughout all the ages in musty bedrooms, in palaces, in caves and desert places."
This part is exactly how I feel about my daughter:
"I looked at this rolled-up bundle... and knew again I had not created her. She was herself apart from me. She had her own life to lead, her own destiny to accomplish; she just came past me to this earth. My job was to get her to adulthood and then push her off."
--Katharine Trevelyan, from "Through Mine Own Eyes"
