I want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much....

“ I want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much love.Then—I have no business being a mother. I am a selfish woman.Then—I can do this. Millions of women have been mothers.Then—I feel very alone. I do not know what I'm capable of. ”

Megan Mayhew Bergman

From : Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories