My grandmother, born in 1902, had ten children in an agricultural, devout and patriarchal world.  My mother did not want children.  She wanted to free herself from domestic contingencies.  She became a civil servant and a city dweller.  All my life, I had to deal with this aversion that she transmitted to me.  Having chosen to live in the countryside, I find myself in my turn monopolized by my home.  It is from my kitchen and my computer screen that I reconstruct our women's journeys under the influence of household and family obligations.  My grandmother carried buckets of water with a yoke every day.  Today my friends are coming back to washable diapers.  I summon people, places and archives to question my intimate history by dialoguing with Michelle Perrot, historian of women's emancipation.