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Kim Brooks

American Writer

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When I earned my diploma from the University of Virginia in the spring of 2000, it never occurred to me before my senior year to worry too seriously about my post-graduation prospects. Indeed, most of my professors, advisors, and mentors reinforced this complacency. Kim Brooks

Me Seriously Year Spring Before Complacency Too Virginia Earned Worry Indeed Diploma About Mentors Never Prospects Most Advisor Occurred Senior Senior Year Professors Reinforced University

I attended a middling high school in central Virginia in the mid-'90s, so there were no lofty electives to stoke my artistic sensibility - no A.P. art history or African-American studies or language courses in Mandarin or Portuguese. I lived for English, for reading. Kim Brooks

Art History School Language Reading Virginia High Lofty High School Studies Attended Courses Were Art History Stoke Artistic African-American Sensibility Central English Lived Portuguese

In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for parents, no universal preschool and minimal safety nets for vulnerable families, making it a crime to offer children independence in effect makes it a crime to be poor. Kim Brooks

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We're contemptuous of 'distracted' working mothers. We're contemptuous of 'selfish' rich mothers. We're contemptuous of mothers who have no choice but to work, but also of mothers who don't need to work and still fail to fulfill an impossible ideal of selfless motherhood. You don't have to look very hard to see the common denominator. Kim Brooks

Work You Selfish Impossible Motherhood Rich Distracted No Choice See Fail Ideal Look Also Contemptuous Mothers Still Denominator Selfless Very Common Common Denominator Choice Fulfill Working Hard Who Need

I love my husband. I love my family. Kim Brooks

Love Family Husband

I worked as a restaurant hostess and tutored English-as-a-second-language without a formal work visa. Kim Brooks

Work Visa Restaurant Hostess Without Formal Worked

Serious relationships draw us away from the circle of friends that seemed so adequate, so fulfilling. Marriage cements these inward movements. Children draw partners closer, but they can also draw you further away from the friends and lives you once knew. Kim Brooks

People don't think that leaving children alone is dangerous and therefore immoral. They think it is immoral and therefore dangerous. Kim Brooks

Alone People Dangerous Think Immoral Leaving Children Therefore

Motherhood was the first instance in my life where I was asked to sacrifice anything for anyone. Kim Brooks

Life My Life Sacrifice First Motherhood Instance Where Anyone Anything Asked

I love food, but I can't bear to read about it, to talk about it, to discuss the consequences and context of how we consume it. And this is more or less how I feel about raising children, too. Kim Brooks

Love Food Consequences Too About More Bear More Or Less Consume Feel Talk Read How Context Discuss Children Less Raising Raising Children

Having children, entering the realm of parents and parenthood, changes our relationship to the world in ways we could not have anticipated and might not have signed up for. Before I had children, for example, I believed strongly in the nobility of suffering. Kim Brooks

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I don't know exactly when I started watching television, but I know that Muppets and Smurfs hold privileged places in my memory. Without television, I surely could have mastered several classical languages or learned to play the violin, right? Kim Brooks

If you've driven your kids to the store, and you leave them for five minutes, by far the most dangerous thing you've done is just put your kid in the car and driven them to the store. Kim Brooks

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I have a profound and unshakable love of good eating. Kim Brooks

Love Good Eating Unshakable Profound

A slice of perfectly buttered, warm-from-the-oven bread has been known to bring tears to my eyes. Kim Brooks

Eyes Tears Slice Has-Been Perfectly Known Been Bread Buttered Bring

I struggled with math and had no interest in sports. Kim Brooks

Sports No Interest Struggled Had Math Interest

I got an MFA in fiction. Kim Brooks

Got Fiction

I've harassed pediatricians and nurses, demanded extra conferences with preschool teachers, contacted speech therapists and occupational therapists over delays other mothers probably wouldn't have noticed, stressed over magnet school applications three years before they're due. Kim Brooks

School Three Before Extra Other Nurses Delays Magnet Demanded Over School Teachers Occupational Mothers Due Years Conferences Noticed Harassed Teachers Therapists Preschool Applications Stressed Speech

At times, our collective anger seems a worthwhile thing - it has a weight and shape and force we couldn't achieve as individuals - but at other times, I can't help wondering how much it really accomplishes, if in some ways it might even impede us in our attempts to be more thoughtful, 'enlightened' human beings. Kim Brooks

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