This comment is for Karen Love and her commentary “Anna Quindlen’s mixed message to young women” (Op-Ed, Jan. 4).
How can Anna Quindlen’s message be mixed? She is a very talented writer who now chooses to continue her talents as both a novelist and a mother. I respect the fact that Anna Quindlen has the opportunity to make such a choice.
I am a 22-year-old woman working my way through my senior year of college. There is no confusion in pursuing a successful career and then, if given the opportunity, to choose to become a stay-at-home mother.
Perhaps the mixed message for these girls Ms. Love is counseling is the importance of their own self-worth. Why is it that these young women long for children at such a young age? Do they know that they too can, as Ms. Love so eloquently put it, choose “between French vanilla and double-chocolate nut?”
