"I'd always fantasized about being a mother. Why, I am not certain. Maybe it was because I admired the job my mother was doing. Or maybe it was because I longed for the power only a mother can wield over her offspring. Or maybe it was because somewhere, in the adventure of discovering my sexual identity, I was seeking the height of female experience. There is no argument against motherhood being the definitive female experience, is there?"
-- Harvey Fierstein, in an Op-Ed piece titled All My Children in The New York Times today.