“It is one of us women who must speak (now that men have not) of the sacredness of this painful and divine state. If the mission of art is to beautify all, with immense mercy, shall we not purify, to the eyes of the impure, this?” – Gabriela Mistral on pregnancy
Gabriela Mistral herself never had the chance to marry or have children.
I think it’s appropriate to say we’re doing worse at this even than when she wrote. Children and mothers and fathers. It’s what matters. If we cannot do right by them, we have failed beyond recovery.
work is a scam, at least half of ideology is a distraction, all that matters is doing right by families
This is not about Xenoblade 3, but Xenoblade 3 got me thinking about this