Emma DonoghueMen never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.
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I was at a funeral today and people were talking about how they’d just found out that their mother had died. The guy said, “Well, at least there’s one thing we can be thankful for. She died having given birth to a baby and it didn’t suffer the kind of trauma that she did. That’s something to be thankful for.” And I thought, what a sad thing to be thankful for. Why would we want to feel grateful for something we should feel ashamed of?
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