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Producer and activist Selvaratnam, a self-defined casualty of the second-wave feminist idea that biology should not define destiny, responds with a provocative mix of solid information and palpable anger.… This wakeup call…is controversial, but few would argue with Selvaratnam’s suggestion that women get the facts before making family-planning decisions.
Publishers Weekly
Set aside the "mommy wars." This work is for the women who have been left out of the discussion until now.… Many will cheer on Selvaratnam’s ultimate points. Sure to invite discussion among feminists.
Library Journal
She’s intelligent (she’s a Harvard grad), passionate (she’s a feminist and activist), and artistic (she’s a documentary and theater producer). And she wants to share her hard-won wisdom so that young women in the future don’t make the same mistakes she did.
Booklist
In The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism and the Reality of the Biological Clock Tanya Selvaratnam presents her own story of “heartbreak and self-discovery” relative to her attempts to become a mother at the relatively advanced age of 40 after having experienced three miscarriages. She notes that women tend not to talk among themselves about failed pregnancies, and overall women are not “conditioned to feel the urgency of fertility.… The message repeated throughout this and later chapters is that women need to have much more information about their fertility and its limitations.… [Tanya] is to be applauded by her attempt to see the many dimensions of feminism and motherhood
New York Journal of Books
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