Amanda

“All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

“Above all, be the heroine of your own life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton