21 Miles

Swimming in Search of the Meaning of Motherhood

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Jessica Hepburn: 21 Miles (2018, Unbound)

Idioma English

Publicado el 2018 por Unbound.

ISBN:
978-1-78352-611-6
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Jessica Hepburn is 43 and making sense of motherhood when you cannot become a biological mother. She decides to do something big with her life: swimming the Channel. During her year of training, she meets with women of different backgrounds to enquire about motherhood.

Quotes: 
"you find happiness through the people you choose and the people you love"

"Connection is vital to human happiness, and if you can’t get it ready-made by having your own children you need to create it in different ways." But "people are most fulfilled when they have a passion." 

"nature is not a feminist. Like many women of my generation, I didn’t ever consider that I would have a baby before my thirties."

About feeling sad and jelouse: "echoes of love I had for my children. You only grieve what you have loved. I loved my children, I just didn’t meet them" 

"reasons being a …

Temas

  • Childishness
  • Infertility
  • Motherhood