The real housewife of Longbourn : Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
Material girls : Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)
Marmee is mad : Little women by Louisa May Alcott (1868-69)
Natural mamas : Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (1908)
The cool girl has kids : The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
How do we know ourselves? : To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)
The myth of zero risk : Passing by Nella Larsen (1929)
Great Scott, woman! Speak out! We've been emancipated! : Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell (1959)
Performing motherhood : Play it as it lays by Joan Didion (1970)
Who's watching the kids? : The color purple by Alice Walker (1982)
It's funny because it's true : Heartburn by Nora Ephron (1983)
How bad is it, really? : The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
Motherlove is a killer : Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
You before me : The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1989)
You will become a harried mom : Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling (1997-2007).
