Betti

“Your children grow up, they leave you,
they have become soldiers and riders. Your mate dies after a life of service. Who knows you? Who remembers you?”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Way the Crow Flies

“by losing a child or husband, fatigue from worry about finances, a wayward husband, or an ailing child, and fatigue from trying to lift her family to a higher status. If women are prone to the Five Fatigues, then men are apt to fall victim to the Four Vices of drink, lust, desire for riches, and anger. Now,”
― Lisa See, Lady Tan's Circle of Women

“My mother always said the envy of others invites”
― Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

“learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them, or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis