Marina Tsvetaeva answers
Natalie Clifford Barney's
Pensées d'une Amazone after their meeting in Paris in 1932. In short, she writes about the psychology behind a lesbian woman's choice to leave her older girlfriend for a man; for her utmost desire to have a child.
[It is not the day the child was born, it is now, three years later, that she knows what it has cost her.]More Tsvetaeva.