Suzanne Labreche

“In their world, once a woman was no longer able to bear children, she was just freer—midlife, the magic time.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love

“Billy was like a splinter. That’s exactly what he was like.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I knew that if I never found my great love, I would rather be single than settle for a mediocre relationship. I can’t bear to pretend happiness.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“And they looked forward to days when time would hang heavy on their hands. Days when they could think about play and rest and forget about work. Listening to Mama and her friends, I never thought about what I wanted my life to be like in midlife; I just accepted on blind faith, with absolute trust, the conviction that it would be sweeter than it had been before. Even if the before was sweet, midlife would be sweeter still. I did not know then that midlife would also be a time to rethink everything I had learned about the nature of women and love.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love