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Crafting with Ursula : Julie Phillips on the Writing Mother

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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What's the Difference Between a Mother and a Writer?

Allie wanted to have kids, but couldn't. An early abortion that became infected apparently made her infertile a and was completely fascinated with l s motherhood for reasons that i think have to do with not having had that experience,. wishing to have had that experience. And she would answer an tip's very general questions, what's motherhood like? An ursula would answer with her own experience as a mother. She would say, you know, i was a listening to my daughters cello concert tit tears running down my face. Or, you know the other one kicking orand swearing. The funny stories about her own life t which i think were liberating for her in a

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