Natasha Steer

"Without a male adult in the house, without any reason for schedules, naps, regular mealtimes, or early bedtimes so the two parents could talk, we fell into what I felt to be a delicious and sinful rhythm…[w]e lived like castaways on some island of mothers and children…I felt wide awake, elated...[w]e were conspirators, outlaws from the institution of motherhood; I felt enormously in charge of my life."

​- Adrienne Rich

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