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I admit that sometimes I think, ‘What if I had kids?’ Would I be a better teacher? Or a better person? Would I write better children’s books? How different would my life be now?
What if certain childfree female role models throughout history had had kids? Would their lives have had the same focus?
What if Oprah Winfrey had kids? Would she have felt the need to educate hundreds of African girls?
What if Mary Cassatt had kids? Would she still have created countless paintings and pastels of mothers and children?
What if Condoleezza Rice had kids? Would she have felt differently about sending other people’s children into war?
What if Florence Nightingale had kids? Would she have been the “lady with the lamp” running from patient to patient night after night?
What if Sally Ride had kids? Would she have been the first American woman astronaut?
Do you need to be a mother to have empathy? To better understand children or humanity?
Do you ever wonder ‘What if I had kids?’
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