Amy Wilson

“the pain of parting is the toll demanded by fate for all the joy brought to us by loved ones, and I felt inconsolable.”
― Tom Michell, The Penguin Lessons

“Growing older with the people I love makes me happy.”
― Tom Michell, The Penguin Lessons

“Proposed in 1998, it posits that females who step out of the reproductive rat race mid-life and focus their energies on supporting their children (and grandchildren), instead of squeezing out yet more babies, significantly increase their offspring’s chances of survival and, in turn, their own genetic legacy.”
― Lucy Cooke, Bitch: On the Female of the Species

“Natural selection will favour young mothers, who have less stake in the success of the wider group, who aggressively compete for limited resources. This prediction was borne out by the observation that when orca mothers and daughters bred simultaneously, calves born to older mothers were almost twice as likely to die in the first fifteen years of life as those born to the younger mothers.”
― Lucy Cooke, Bitch: On the Female of the Species