" She had no intention of ever mothering, for, as she had recently been thinking, she was not sure what children were. Were they the way a person ensured something was left crawling and creeping on earth’s soil when she was buried? Were they the shadowy apparitions of all the people of her lineage? Were they a kind of self-centered pleasure or a kind of self-induced pain? Put less simply, were children the rubric or the body of work? "

― Lindsey Drager , The Lost Daughter Collective