She would be forty next April. She wasn’t sure how that had happened. She could remember when her mother turned forty, and it had seemed ancient. Amy had assumed there would be flying cars by the time she turned forty.
“For the first time in my role as a white woman, I have no fear, because nothing could be worse than the way I already feel. What could be more terrible than the guilt and pain and loss I’ve been experiencing for the last month?”
― The Personal Librarian
― The Personal Librarian
“Because the people we argue with hardest of all are not the ones who are completely different from us, but the ones who are almost no different at all.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Due to my self-employment, I had to report my income every few months. Earning $50 extra could make my co-pay at day care go up by the same amount. Sometimes it meant losing my childcare grant altogether. There was no incentive or opportunity to save money. The system kept me locked down, scraping the bottom of the barrel, without a plan to climb out of it.”
― Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
― Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
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