| “The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield,” Tina Fey observed, in a 2011 piece in The New Yorker. Fey, at the time, was at the helm of “30 Rock,” the acclaimed sitcom that she created and starred in as Liz Lemon, a hardworking single woman in New York City. In real life, Fey was a hardworking married woman, and the mother of a young daughter. In the New Yorker piece—an excerpt from what would become her best-selling memoir, “Bossypants”—Fey writes about her struggles over whether to have a second child, outlining the competing desires and pressures that made it hard to reach a decision. The uncertainties encompassed an array of personal and professional concerns—and, Fey wrote, literally kept her up at night. “No matter how you add up the months” of a pregnancy, she calculates, “it means derailing the TV show where two hundred people depend on me for their income.” Whatever your relationship with motherhood, Fey’s essay is characteristically astute and acerbic, thought-provoking and full of laughs. “What if she turns on me?” she asks at one point, thinking of the daughter she already has. “I am pretty hard to like.” | 
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