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The Housewife

by Natalie Barelli (Goodreads Author)

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“My mom was my first mean girl.”
― Melanie Shankle, Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma

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“You don't have to make yourself OK for a good mother; a good mother makes herself OK for you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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“There is something incredibly healing about getting to be the thing in someone else's life that you wished you'd had in your own.”
― Melanie Shankle, Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma

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“[She was] the kind of woman who wanted to have it all...But the problem is, once you love someone, you can't have it all anymore. Love comes with sacrifice. That's how it works.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

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“see that my own story is a living thing. It unfolds and turns and folds itself over again. When you write it all down, you can go back and find meaning you’d never noticed was there all along.”
― Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder

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