Kate

“Her instinct would always be to take care of her children and to say or do what she believed was best for us. The least I could do was take care of her in return and teach my kids to always give her the respect she didn’t just deserve, but had earned.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, When We Were Widows

“Valuing beauty is like fawning over inherited wealth. It bestows unearned credit on an accident of birth or, worse, the vain use of disposable income.”
― Cate Holahan, The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold

“People act like you can never forget your own name, but if you’re not paying attention, you can veer so incredibly far away from everything you know about yourself to the point where you stop recognizing what they call you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“The phone-based life makes it difficult for people to be fully present with others when they are with others, and to sit silently with themselves when they are alone. If we want to experience stillness and silence, and if we want to develop focus and a sense of unified consciousness, we must reduce the flow of stimulation into our eyes and ears.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness