I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.
There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.