Jennifer

“In her mothering years, he lived in undying amazement of Lucy. She looked at every paper, bored in until she’d heard every the teacher asked at school. She knew by heart what was on the lunch menu, the name of every friend and whether she or he was a good influence, even if the kid had never set foot inside their home. She’d memorized every trumpet note or ballet turn. She hit the laundry room at 6 a.m., because she knew what clothes they’d want to wear, right down to the undies. Her children’s lives were so thoroughly understood, digested, imagined, so thoroughly her own, that other women often seemed to freeze over in shame.

But all of that allowed Lucy to avoid wondering about herself.”
― Scott Turow, Laws of Our Fathers

“I find myself clutched by he resentment, which I still think of as as peculiarly female, of being so often the victim of circumstance and time.”
― Scott Turow, Laws of Our Fathers

“They say you just teach them to leave you”, I finally remark. “From the first step.”
― Scott Turow, Laws of Our Fathers

“He told me I’m supposed to engage in ‘critical self-reflection.’ I told him don’t worry about that, I’m a woman. I wake up in critical self-reflection.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Keep Quiet