"Evolution of a Feminist Daughter "

This article, "Evolution of a Feminist Daughter" was published a number of years ago by Rebecca Walker. I remember reading it back then, perhaps in particular because I'd recently read The Color Purple and was interested in Alice Walker. (Actually, that may even be the reason I found the article in the first place...)

But it floated up again and I once again found it fascinating. So, if you haven't read enough articles regarding feminism, motherhood, racism, gender, etc., here's another that I consider a "must read":

“Mine is the first generation of women to grow up thinking of children as optional,” Ms. Walker writes in the new book. “We learned that children were not to be pursued at the expense of anything else. A graduate degree in economics, for example, or a life of renunciation, devoted to a Hindu mystic.” 

Children, she writes, “smelled of betrayal and a lack of appreciation for the progress made on behalf of women’s liberation.”

[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/fashion/18walker.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&]