Mother Is Not A Title. Mother Is

You Can Waste Your Lives Drawing Lines. Or You Can Live Your Life Crossing Them.

Yes, It Is Hard Out There. But Hard Is Relative. I Come From A Middle-class Family, My Parents Are Academics. I Was Born After The Civil Rights Movement, I Was A Toddler During The Women's Movement, I Live In The United States Of America, All Of Which Means I Am Allowed To Own My Freedom, My Rights, My Voice And My Uterus.

I Was 4 And Dictating Stories Into A Tape Recorder, And My Mom Typed Them Up.

At Some Point, You Have To Make A Decision. Boundaries Don't Keep Other People Out. They Fence You In. Life Is Messy. That's How We're Made. So, You Can Waste Your Lives Drawing Lines. Or You Can Live Your Life Crossing Them

You Literally Can Shoot Someone In The Face On Television And A 7-year-old Can Watch It. But You Can't Show The Slight Of A Man's Hip, Because Dear God, Someone Might Think Of Sex. And While We All Hope Our Kids Grow Up To Have Sex, We Do Not Hope They Grow Up To Shoot Someone In The Face.