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“Honestly and authentically being around others is maybe the hardest thing in the world.”
― Tyler James Smith, Unstoppable Moses

“You desperately want all the right tools because you want to mother 'the right way'. But motherhood is messy, and raw, and nuanced, and requires things a baby registry could never provide: surrender, and trust, and dependence on the Lord Almighty to fuel you with grace, with perseverance, with steadfast love, with sacrificial willingness to get up the next morning with your eyes half shut and do it all over again. That is what you need to mother.”
― Ashlee Gadd, Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood

“Are you smiling because you’re an asshole?” I said, just to make sure that wasn’t why.”
― Tyler James Smith, Unstoppable Moses

“Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words ‘to father’ have such a different meaning from the words ‘to mother’.”
― Claire Fuller, Swimming Lessons