Patricia Ferguson

“Those of us who’ve bypassed the exits for marriage and children tend to motor through our thirties like unlicensed drivers, unauthorized grownups.”
― Kate Bolick, Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own

“You are born, you grow up, you become a wife. But what if it wasn’t this way? What if a girl grew up like a boy, with marriage an abstract, someday thought, a thing to think about when she became an adult, a thing she could do, or not do, depending? What would that look and feel like?”
― Kate Bolick, Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin