The Women Who Made Us
Writers for The Free Press reflect on mothers and motherhood in seven essays, old and new, for Mother’s Day 2025. (Image via Getty)
All of the clichés about motherhood are true. But there’s a lot more to say.
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One of the reasons I think it’s so hard to write about parenting is that every cliché is true. Your heart lives outside of your body; you get to relive your childhood; you have no time for yourself; you always smell slightly of vomit, at least at first. And the minute you meet this tiny person, a desperate race against the clock begins: to make the worl…
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