St. Edith Stein once wrote, “The woman’s soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.”
Our feminine capacity to connect with others, to see them as they are, to provide a nurturing space where they can feel uniquely known and loved, to be sensitive to their needs and respond to them in personal ways is our greatest gift.
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But women are not meant to be “just mothers,” we might protest. We are meant to be teachers, scientists, artists, politicians and chief executive officers! Of course, we can be all of these things, but it is a sexist world that tells women that mothering is somehow beneath us or that in order to be successful we must hide our hearts. To mother means to nurture relationships, the very things that give meaning to our lives and our work.
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- Danielle Bean
