Clover Stroud > Quotes

“I can't tell him how much the repetition that motherhood brings to every day can feel as though it may break me: some women claim there's a silence around the pain of labour, but there's a silence as loud around the squashed feeling of despair that can come with cooking supper which will get thrown into the bin untouched, night after night.”
― Clover Stroud, My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story

“The complete and absolute rightness of his existence flooded into my life like a pot of golden poster paint tipped all over a white floor.”
― Clover Stroud, The Wild Other: A Memoir