Lisa Heck

“In the Pirkei Avoth, the Jewish ethical compendium from the third century, it is written, "In a place with no people, try to be a person" (2:6).”
― Melissa Fay Greene, There is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children

“the context for Gen X women is this: we were an experiment in crafting a higher-achieving, more fulfilled, more well-rounded version of the American woman. In midlife many of us find that the experiment is largely a failure.”
― Ada Calhoun, Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis