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At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

"Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.