[11] In Anthem there is a couple with a child. But even in that novel, the real purpose for having a child is to create a new race and a different model of human being. When Ayn Rand wrote about the education of children it was almost always to show how a rational society of rational individuals would function.
[12] Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives (Mont.: Kessinger Publishing, 2010), 29.
[13] “I am the state!”
[14] Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays, Speeches (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007), 12.
[15] Simit is a popular street food made with dough and sesame.
[16] Moyra Davey, ed., Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001), 11.
[17] Laure Adler, Marguerite Duras: A Life (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2000), 217.
[18] Patricia L. Moran, Word of Mouth: Body Language in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996).
