Amelia

“interrupted by a couple of familiar shrieks that you might hear in a restaurant when there’s a large group of women at a table. Everyone here knew that shriek, which signaled the happiness of women spending time together.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

“I think that’s what the people who change our lives always do. They give us permission to be the person we secretly really long to be but maybe don’t feel we’re allowed to be.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

“Your twenties were a time when you still felt young, but the groundwork was being laid in a serious way, crisscrossing beneath the surface. It was being laid even while you slept. What you did, where you lived, who you loved, all of it was like pieces of track being put down in the middle of the night by stealth workers.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion