Whether you decide to be a mother or not, your choice does not make you any less of a woman, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise It felt like a punch in the gut to hear the writer Hannah, from the HBO series, Girls, was interviewing say with the air of eclectic authority that childlessness is the natural state of the female author. “Write that down,” she tells Hannah, who is herself struggling with inhabiting the identity of a female writer in an American literary scene still dominated by white privileged men.