Another Baylor professor Natalie Carnes wrote Motherhood: A Confession in conversation with Augustine’s Confessions. In a 2013 piece, Elizabeth Corey claims that career and motherhood will always tragically conflict. Recently, Christian female writers have stepped into this gap to respond to this conundrum. Tolkien were uplifted, and I would chide-yes, but would they have excelled with their gifts had they been women? As a woman, how to both write and ensure the sundry cares of a homelife? However, the desire for Christian women writers to act as role models continued to press on me. Thankfully, I later discovered Toni Morrison, Sigrid Undset, Julian of Norwich, and the list goes on. This was a frightening observation to a young woman who wanted to be both a mother and a writer. As a teenager I began to notice that the great women writers that I loved were not mothers- Flannery O’Connor, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Austen.
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