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“I would look around at the disorder of my life, the chaos and ambiguity—emptiness and servitude alongside exquisite beauty—and I’d think, Somebody else must feel this way too. Because I knew I was grateful. I knew I was so happy to be here I sometimes felt the hand of God himself had spread across my broken shoulders. And yet, maybe I hate motherhood.”
― I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
― I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
“I just feel pathetic, Jack. I was sitting there like a motherfucking loser, and I just feel pathetic.” Against all evidence of my time working with him, I still expected words of encouragement, words like, “Oh you’re not pathetic. Look at all you’ve done, Janelle! You’re a shining star!” But after a pause, he asked, “Wouldn’t it be great if you could be okay with being pathetic?”
― I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
― I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
“This was done for obvious reasons, there were great chasms beneath words, between two or sometimes more languages, that could open up without warning.”
― Intimacies
― Intimacies
“I looked around again, nothing had changed in the apartment, with the exception of the volume I had purchased at Anton de Rijk’s shop in the Old Town. I had been complicit in my own erasure.”
― Intimacies
― Intimacies
“If you’re sitting in the living room but want to be in the kitchen, the first thing you have to do is realize you’re in the fucking living room.” Oh God, I thought. Good News Jack is speaking in metaphor again. I nodded, following the concept thus far. “Otherwise,” he said, “you’ll never know to get up and walk into the kitchen.” I stared at him with my mouth open. We can’t get someplace new until we’re honest about where we are.”
― I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
― I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
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