Monday readings...or the rest of Sunday's papers

I'm still reading the Sunday papers from yesterday and saw this article on text-bubble anxiety in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/fashion/texting-anxiety-caused-by-little-bubbles.html


Catching up with the Guardian today, I read this:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/31/jennifer-aniston-childess-women-judged-unfairly

I find it interesting in a more general than personal sense since I've never been asked why I don't have children or why I'm not married (well, except by my mom!) but I imagine it's true to a lot of women's experiences.

I think that there are also women who wanted children very very much at one time in their lives, but made peace with not having them once it became clear motherhood just wasn't going to happen. Maybe biology played a part or they wanted to raise a family with someone else and never met that special person...

Some people (usually people who should just mind their own business)make assumptions that should only ever remain inside their own heads and never be spoken aloud. None of us ever really knows why someone else does or doesn't do something and it's not for us to judge them. I've always believed true feminism is having self-autonomy as a woman, whether you decide to have children or not.