Besides, what good is repaying a debt to the wrong party? Only the most warped mother would feel rewarded for her trouble by the fact that at last her daughter's life is hideous, too. But who wants to pay a debt she can escape? Apparently, the childless get away with something sneaky. Once I had a toddler in tow, every man I knew-every woman, too, which is depressing-would take me less seriously.)ġ0. (I had never had a decent conversation with a friend's five-year-old in the room.)ĩ. Fifth, she writes about women, messy, arrogant, willfull, meek, submissive, brilliant, dim, WOMEN.
I did, even at the outset, admit this to myself.)Ĩ. Lionel Shriver's work is bold and often crushingly sad, because she is brave enough to explore the various unhappinesses of life on earth without offering pat answers as to its causes. Unnatural altruism: being forced to make decisions in accordance with what was best for someone else. I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.)ĥ. My sister-in-law had developed bulging varicose veins in her legs during pregnancy that never retreated, and the prospect of calves branched in blue tree roots mortified me more than I could say. (I was slight, and preferred to stay that way. The kid's insufferable friends and their insufferable parents.)Ĥ.
Her latest book, Abominations: Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction, is published by the Borough Press (2022). Rather, it might have looked something like this:Ģ. Lionel Shriver is a novelist and journalist. “Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the list.
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