" With times the way they were in the 1980s , I was worried that moms might have gotten the mistaken idea that what they did didn't matter. What I understood from the women's movement was that we had free choice to be anything we wanted. We could choose to stay home with the children or work out of the house, depending on our personal needs, and each of those choices deserved equal respect. But sometimes , watching Phil Donahue in the Pre-Oprah days, it felt like women were being pitted against each other. "

― Susan Branch , Martha's Vineyard, Isle of Dreams (#2)