Not having it all

"Children. There's the rub; I accept that childlessness might become the price I pay for my decision to become a writer.... I do not believe that I can 'have it all'— that is, that I can be effective both as a mother and as a writer."

(from "Earning Virginia Woolf's Room" by Eileen Tabios, included in the anthology, Sleeping with One Eye Open, edited by Marilyn Kallet and Judith Ortiz Cofer, 1999).