Martha

“To have a child is to have your heart go walking around outside your body for the rest of your life—”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

“And staying meant raising sons who hit women. Staying meant raising a daughter who stayed with the man who hit her.”
― Tia Levings, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

“Remember the world from back when you couldn't even find out if you had strep throat without a doctor calling the wall phone in your kitchen? Now you just click into your computer and discover that you have cancer - or that you have - I'm seeing this now - a white-blood-cell disorder called leukopenia - or that they've scheduled your autopsy.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

“We think of ourselves as a highly rational species, but the truth is that we aren’t:”
― Addy Baird, The Magical Game: The Spirit and History of Baseball's Superstitions, Rituals, and Curses