. >> you know, linnet hates being a mother. she doesn't enjoy it.a soccer field. susan and brie go out to comfort her and confess to her that they understand they've been through it, too. >> and that's when lynnet turns to them and says, why doesn't anyone talk about this? because part of the pain is the shame of it. >> when you think back to "leave it to beaver" or any of those women, the whole idea was that you had to be perfect. >> same way women were fighting against the icon of the perfect wife in the '50s and '60s that led to women's lib. the new icon is motherhood. the perfection of motherhood. >> when people say, oh, she's just a mother, i'm like, do you know how hard that is? it's a lot easier to get up in the morning and go to work when someone offers me a cup of coffee. >> the first thing i came up with was the title "desperate housewives." the woman running the testing group says, a lot of women aren't going to like that. that meant they departmeidn't r women who just stayed in the home. you have to become the ceo of a fortune 500 compan