We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way it goes, better … - Ani DiFranco

And everything seems to have gone terribly wrong that can.
But one breath at a time is an acceptable plan,
She tells herself.

It makes me really sad that women have been ejected from the seat of their power in this society in terms of what happens around childbirth. In other parts of the world, there are places where women can't drive a car, but they're still in charge of childbirth... The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women do. I find it metaphorically resonant that a pregnant woman looks like she's just sitting on a couch, but she's actually exhausting herself constructing a human being. The laborious process of growing a human is analogous to how 'women's work' is seen.

and I try
to draw the line
but it ends up running down the middle of me
most of the time.