Brothers, love is a teacher, but a hard one to obtain: learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov)
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Guess You Can't Have Everything
"I admit I’d imagined a proto-feminist surrogate, perhaps using her money on her own education, but Vaina is who she is."
"Woman who desperately needs a baby" (phrasing the clinic director used) sounds really wrong to me. Also, "There isn’t a more profound connection than having another woman, a perfect stranger at first, carry and cherish the lives of children that you have wanted your entire life." There isn't a more profound connection? I don't have much to say, just highlighting some of the less obvious stuff I found disturbing here...
"Woman who desperately needs a baby" (phrasing the clinic director used) sounds really wrong to me. Also, "There isn’t a more profound connection than having another woman, a perfect stranger at first, carry and cherish the lives of children that you have wanted your entire life." There isn't a more profound connection? I don't have much to say, just highlighting some of the less obvious stuff I found disturbing here...
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