Sheri Ackerman

“In my naïveté as a mother and my egocentricity as an actress, I honestly thought that seeing me on the screen would make my children proud.”
― Kate Mulgrew, Born with Teeth

“It’s about learning to show up and let ourselves be seen just as we are, massively imperfect and weak and wild and flawed in a thousand ways, but still worth loving.”
― Shauna Niequist, Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

“Kindness is not the same as niceness, or putting our heads in the sand, or avoiding conflict. It is acknowledging that no life is as it seems on the surface. It is understanding that we never know all the layers in a life, and choosing to speak and act from that difficult gray place in all of us.”
― Kerry Egan, On Living

“She was unmoored and her memories were eroding in the sunlight,”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal