Excerpt from Goddess Tongue: In Search of the Language of Feminist Motherhood

Abstract

What creativity really is, its truest metaphor, is the steady growth of life, like the life of a baby in a mother's womb. This work follows that development—in visible and invisible ways. Using the stages of motherhood as form to discuss motherhood as content, my work is my personal search to answer the question: what is feminist mothering? This excerpt focuses on the early stages: the richness of the womb and of the mind, the susceptibility for the conception of an idea, and the discovery of that idea's beginnings.