Brooke

“I stood there in a trance, the bucket at my feet, listening as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

“One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

“If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

“Why had no one told me that my body would become a battlefield, a sacrifice, a test? Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent