Hazel Perris

“I’ve got out at last,” said I, “in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

“There are two types of mothers: those who have not taught their children to be kind to themselves, and those who have not learned to be kind to their children.”
― Yiyun Li, Wednesday's Child: Stories

“mother: “I am sure that if you had been told when you were a child about all the things that you were going to have to do, you would have thought you had better die at once, you would not have believed you could ever have the strength to do them.”
― Yiyun Li, Wednesday's Child: Stories

“But I’ve been thinking about how the trunks of trees bend and curve when they grow next to each other. Their leaves twist to accommodate each other. Their closeness reads on the shape of them, and you can infer the shape of one from the shape of another. When you know someone and you grow together, your shape and form become theirs. And so even though Rob is gone, and there’ll never be another Rob, another friend I’ve known as well or as closely, the impression his life left on me will always be there, and in that sense we haven’t lost him at all.”
― Nicola Dinan, Bellies