Kara

“We can only live in the time we live.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Strangers

“If our generation has been told for decades that we have so much freedom, so many choices, such opportunities, the question women with young children face is: how free are we to reach for the stars in midlife if we have someone else depending on us? Especially when our concept of good parenting involves so much more brain space and such higher costs than it did for our mothers and grandmothers? And when we expect ourselves to be excellent, highly engaged parents while also being excellent, highly engaged employees?”
― Ada Calhoun, Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“To write a book is an act of hope that one can be understood.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Strangers