Brenda. Lorena. Bella. Tatiana. What do these women have in common? They arewhite, middle-class residents of major cities, approximately 30 years old, and,most importantly, they are uncertain about whether they want to be mothers ornot. Starting with inquiries into the fears these women feel regarding motherhood,this research delves into data generated from semi-structured interviews(MISHLER, 1986) to understand the relationships established between the fearspresented by the interviewees and issues of gender, class, and race. The study fallswithin the field of Narrative Analysis, a subarea of Applied Linguistics, whichexamines, among other factors, how the stories people tell interact withmacro-social discourses. In light of this, the current investigation scrutinizes thesmall stories (BAMBERG; GEORGAKOPOULOU, 2008) narrated by theinterviewees through two layers of analysis: a structural one and a discursive one.The first examines how the narrators structure their narratives, and the secondobserves how these statements reaffirm or challenge macro-social discourses. Theanalyses thus reveal the intensity with which the dominant feminist discourseintertwines with the neoliberal discourse, creating a sociocultural context in whichmotherhood – at least for affluent white women – is losing the status it once had,now being situated in professional success and consumer power.