#Catherine Ruth Pakaluk

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‘There is a famous story about Elizabeth Anscombe, which kept drifting into my mind as I read Catherine Ruth Pakaluk’s new book, Hannah’s Children. Anscombe was an Oxford professor, a high-profile analytic philosopher, and also a mother of seven. People sometimes had opinions about that, and the story goes that she came into her classroom one day (pregnant with her seventh) to find that some mean-spirited troll had written the words “ANSCOMBE BREEDS” on her chalkboard. Calmly, without apparent embarrassment, she picked up the chalk and added two words. “ANSCOMBE BREEDS IMMORTAL BEINGS.”’

— Rachel Lu

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The Women Who Had Five or More Kids on Purpose Think They Know Something You Don’t

Family Super-Motherhood What can this mother of one learn from women who have five or more kids on purpose? More than she bargained for. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Sergiu Vălenaș/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Catherine Ruth Pakaluk, a Harvard Ph.D.–holding economist at the Catholic University of America, in Washington, has eight children. She is interested—academically, as well as…

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