Look if you ask a child 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath ' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.
Every view and every object I studied attentively by viewing them again and again on every side for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.