Jessica Berger Gross > Quotes

“Still, I’ve come to believe there are times when a family is so broken it can’t be put back together, or mended — times when the repair job isn’t worth the price. But that assessment isn’t to be made lightly, and cannot be made without calling into question one’s own essential goodness. Breaking from your parents is a selfish move, but sometimes selfishness is justified. What I know is this: When I made the decision to stop speaking to my parents, I made the decision to be happy.”
― Jessica Berger Gross, Estranged

“Maimonides, the medieval writer, says you can try three times for a reconciliation before giving up and that’s enough, then you can stop.”
― Jessica Berger Gross, Estranged

“I am not simply missing one child who never grew, but two of them. I always know how old they'd be. What I do not know is who I might have been, had I become their mother.”
― Jessica Berger Gross, About What Was Lost: Twenty Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope

“Früher war er mal ein guter Marxist gewesen. Doch es war schwierig, seine linken Auffassungen mit dem Wunsch nach Nussbutter-Smoothies für neun Dollar zu vereinbaren.”
― Jessica Berger Gross, Hazel Says No

“Die Literaturwelt war mörderisch. Bei dem Mist brauchte man Beziehungen.”
― Jessica Berger Gross, Hazel Says No

“Wir schleppen uns voran wie Raupen, bis wir unter dem Stiefel des Patriarchats und der Hausarbeit zermalmt werden.”
― Jessica Berger Gross, Hazel Says No