"Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?"

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In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her feet; a woman fulfilled, one who asks nothing more than to nurture and nourish. This creature of fantasy, this myth, is the model--the unattainable ideal against which women measure, not only their performance, but their feelings about being mothers.

— Lillian B. Rubin