Today I was reading Susan Glaspell's Century of American Women found the following quote 'this chapter will examine the plays that focus on women, particularly the theme of maternity, for in these plays motherhood becomes disassociated from sweetness and light and increasingly linked to entrapment and oppression' p.59.

Entrapment and oppression. I can understand these feelings but non the less feel guilty for admitting to it. I am never quite sure if it is being a mother or a wife that entraps my free spirit within. I love my children dearly though and have to say I would not swap them for the world, my husband on the other hand is often not that secure in my emotions. What an awful wife I must be!!