"You are preaching to the choir," Grace answered. "I was taught to be self-sufficient, self-determining, to be fully capable of making my own choices. When I was a little girl, we were taught you can be anything you want to be, if you want it badly enough. Motherhood was an option, not a requirement. The last ones born before the serum, the ones who are now fifteen to twenty years old, aren't taught that. Now it's you can be anything you want, as long as being a mother is first and foremost. I feel as if all the work my mother and her mother did for women's rights was for nothing. I have no problem with the concept of marriage and motherhood--it was in my plans eventually. What I don't like is being told that I will marry and that I will be a broodmare."
She smiled, but it was without humor. "Like you, I want it to be my choice, not some computer saying that according to its numbers and data, it has the perfect match for me and that I will have as many children by this person as is possible."