Painterly wooden toy horse on wheels with its side compartment open to reveal small bundled items.

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Rebecca West

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

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What it means

Our 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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