“I would say to the worn and hectored mothers in the class who longed to write and could not find a minute for it: ‘If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: “Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!” you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.'”
Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write (1938; rpt. Graywolf Press, 1987), 100.
Dame Eleanor Hull 
Clearly, I need to change the way I talk when I have to work on the dissertation or grade papers. Maybe these:
“Mommy has to work so she can help her students become better thinkers and, thus, better citizens.”
and
“Mommy has to write her 300-page manuscript so that other people can read her important ideas.”
Hmmm. Not sure. I’ll have to keep thinking about this.
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hilarious. my kids both know all about my book. fMhgirl can’t understand why it isn’t done and fMhson decided to write a book too