Nancy

“It’s very easy, under conditions of artificial but continually escalating obligation, to find yourself organizing your life around practices you find ridiculous and possibly indefensible. Women have known this intimately for a long time.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror

“householder, a mother, a grandmother has precious duties that don’t cease, that go on till her dying day.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“But, alas, he never really belonged in either place, the sad fate, I am afraid, of those whose hearts break and then mend in crooked ways.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux