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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
— Rebecca West
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An editorial interpretation.
Comparing motherhood to a Trojan horse, this observation suggests that becoming a parent can feel like smuggling something enormous and transformative into one's own life disguised as something small and manageable, only to have it upend everything from within once it arrives.
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