Donna

“everything was easier when you were a woman over fifty.”
― Emma Straub, All Adults Here

“It was the first time many of the women had spent time in a bonafide workplace apart from a classroom, and they discovered what workplaces are and have been since the dawn of time: places where one is annoyed and thwarted and underpaid and interrupted and under appreciated.”
― Liza Mundy, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

“This was the job of a parent: to fuck up, over and over again. This was the job of a child: to grow up anyway.”
― Emma Straub, All Adults Here

“Never forget where you come from, but don’t allow it to define you.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door