Angela

“To have a child is to set loose a force in the world.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“There was the sense of a war having occurred. One that was not yet over.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Lucy by the Sea

“A very queer, composite being thus emerges. Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“This is how we lived. It was strange.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Lucy by the Sea