Becky Sluka

“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“It's like getting the best Christmas gift ever, but Santa decided to kick the crap out of you before you unwrapped it.”
― Adrienne Martini, Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.”
― Jennifer Weiner