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Nancy Reddy is the author of The Good Mother Myth. Her previous books include the poetry collections Pocket Universe and Double Jinx, a winner of the National Poetry Series. With Emily Pérez, she’s co-editor of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. Her essays have appeared in Slate, Poets & Writers, Romper, The Millions, and elsewhere. The recipient of grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Sustainable Arts Foundation and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, she teaches writing at Stockton University and writes the newsletter Write More, Be Less Careful.

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The Good Mother Myth: Unlea...

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Double Jinx: Poems (Nationa...

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“This is the problem of looking for heroes and then looking at them too closely. There is no neat path for any of us to follow. There is still so much work for all of us to do. We are all building the road as we go.”
Nancy Reddy, The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom

“I believe that looking to the past helps us see the present more clearly. Nothing about our current culture around motherhood is natural or inevitable or unchangeable. When we understand how the structures and policies and culture that constrain us came to be, we can see our way into changing them.”
Nancy Reddy, The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom

“It sometimes feels like every generation of mothers from Betty Friedan and Adrienne Rich on has been learning anew that the story we've been sold about the magical power of a mother's love is largely a way to draft us into an enormous amount of unpaid and undervalued labor.”
Nancy Reddy, The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom

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