Mari

“Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through...”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Radical Sanity : Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women

“Reasoning with a two-year-old is about as productive as changing seats on the Titanic.”
― Robert Scotellaro

“There is no singular meaning of wife. That is the point. That is its meaning. To see the wife fully through a multi-faceted lens is one of the central challenges facing society in the twenty-first century. To do this, new scripts are required that employ wife as a verb and as a gender-neutral concept. These are essential if we are to create necessary new narratives, new ways of living as women and men together.”
― Anne Kingston, The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the Twenty-first Century

“Unless you were high up in a building or happened to glimpse it at the end of one of the big avenues going east-west, all you knew of the sunset was a darkening in the air. No wonder people in New York were so unbalanced. They were totally untouched by the rhythms of nature. You were only aware of nature when something extreme happened, like a snowstorm or heatwave.”
― Susan Minot, Rapture