Sharon

“Have you noticed how discourtesy and aggression are infecting our public life? What happened to gentleness?”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee

“Bewildering that you could harm a child without even knowing, thinking all the while you were being careful, conscientious. But it was a terrible feeling. More terrible than having”
― Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle

“Pretend to be a better person than you are, and in time the mask will draw you toward becoming that reality.”
― Lindsay Freeman, Good Lord, Deliver Us

“Maybe that’s what we imagine it would be like to have a woman lead us. When women got into positions of power, they calibrated and recalibrated tenderness and strength, modulating and correcting. Power and love didn’t often live side by side. If one came in, the other might go.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion