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“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
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“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
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“Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.”
― Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness
― Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness
“The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some sort of acknowledgement that not everyone should parent - when parenting is a given, it's not fully considered or thought out, and it gives way too easily to parental ambivalence and unhappiness.”
― Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness
― Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness
“Some kinds of literature demand to be treated respectfully. The obligation is on the reader to live up to them and not so much on them to entertain the reader.”
― The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading
― The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading
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