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“She wiggles and squirms and shifts, and fear hums beside me as I begin to understand that keeping a child is like keeping the sky— always with me but never mine.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“Scientists like to say— often with a lofty affectation— that to be a scientist is to accept a lifetime of learning and relearning, as new data upturns theories and redefines what was once thought to be fact. It is a lifetime of paradigm shifts. It is a lifetime of being on your toes, of asking why, rooting around for answers, sometimes finding them, and then rewiring neural connections in your brain to fit them in. Change is the lifeblood.”
― We Carry the Sea in Our Hands
― We Carry the Sea in Our Hands
“People always say not to forget because then history will repeat itself. But maybe history will repeat itself anyway, and forgetting is how we bear it.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“I believe that looking to the past helps us see the present more clearly. Nothing about our current culture around motherhood is natural or inevitable or unchangeable. When we understand how the structures and policies and culture that constrain us came to be, we can see our way into changing them.”
― The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom
― The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom
“I'm struck by our simplistic belief that people and reality could be empirically qualified and thus understood, when it's the inexplicable surplus that makes us who we are.”
― The Original Daughter
― The Original Daughter
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