“ They go and get themselves bloody pregnant and I say ‘right: for three months before you even give birth, you’re going to be useless, your brain will turn to mush.’ They always argue that they’ll be working until the day before, have the baby, go down to the river, wash it off, give it to the nanny and be back at work the following day, but sure enough, their brains turn to mush, and then after the birth the maternal instincts kick in, they take three months off, get it out of their system and are back to normal.
Obiter Dicta
Observations, opinions, thoughts from the curious and questioning mind of an eclectic woman living in the temporal centre of the world in London, England via 20 cities in 3 continents
June 3, 2008