But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some childβs mother or some manβs wife?β¦we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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