Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out about a century ago that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean...
My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army but I never called them...
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says but to go off with him and travel in his company.
