𝓕𝓮𝓫𝓻𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 -`♡´-

Howl's Moving Castle dir. Hayao Miyazaki | 2004

As a homemaker, I have a lot of cleaning and cooking and laundry to do. But homemaking also allows you to have some spare time, particularly as your kids get older. So I read regularly to sharpen my mind, feel alive, and stay interesting to my husband. If the only thing you have to talk about when your husband is home is what your friends have gossiped about, you're not going to be very interesting.

happy housewife

I want traditions. I want good china and cutlery that we only use on special occasions. I want to go on holiday twice a year. I want my hair and nails done once a month. I want to make you dinner every night and serve you first. I want an allowance. I want to ask permission for big purchases. I want to be the type of woman who says “I’ll have to ask my husband.” I want you to choose what I eat in restaurants. I want you to make the big decisions and I want to defer. I want to look after your every whim. I want to be your idea of perfection.

More importantly, I want you to want that too.

if being married offends you, if choosing to have kids offends you, if choosing to be there for them instead of other alternatives to child care truly offends you, then sorry I guess you'll have to stay offended. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Moms will keep being moms if they choose to, and wives will keep being wives if they also choose to.

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“I cannot pretend prochoice vs. prolife is about women versus babies. It isn't. It is about society versus families.

Abortion doesn't save women. It doesn't stop or fix rape. It doesn't end poverty. It doesn't stop domestic violence. It doesn't do anything except undo women's healthy biology, kill her child, and send her right back to whatever circumstances she came from.

Sure, if she just doesn't want to be pregnant, it ends pregnancy. Why doesn't she want to be pregnant though? The replies are along the lines of, "Fuck you. It doesn't matter. It is her choice and right." Ok. Thank you for telling me you care about abortion, not women.

This is what is being offered as the savior for women? This is our freedom? This is our equality? This is the answer we are being offered for children living in poverty, abuse, or neglect? Just pre-emptively guess their fate and kill them? This is what we are being offered as a way to address maternal mortality? Don't attempt to make advancements that address complications that arise in pregnancy, just blame women's biology and kill her kid?

I do not accept that this is the best we can do for women, children, or families. I do not accept that to be free, equal, and safe women have to turn against their biology and their children.”

– Robin Atkins