“The Secret to Being Both a Writer and a Mother”

So when I see yet another bloody article that, right from the headline, demands women limit the number of children they have in order to succeed professionally – as though the universal introduction of equally distributed paid maternity and paternity leave, a collective cultural removal of heads from arses on the subject of male caregiving, and the ready availability of affordable childcare are all wholly irrelevant factors in any discussion concerning the impact of motherhood on our literary careers (or careers of any kind, for that matter) – I experience an overwhelming urge to set the writer on fire.

— Foz Meadows, “Of Motherhood and Writing”

If this were Tumblr, I’d be reposting the entire damn article, because I agree with every word.