“There’s no life-work balance. Okay? Get it? It’s all life. You get the same twenty-four hours as the next girl. Fill yours with what you love.”
― The Christmas Fix
― The Christmas Fix
“We read not to escape life but to learn how to live it more deeply and richly, to experience the world through the eyes of the other.”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
“Off with their heads’ is sometimes the perfect solution. Use this opportunity to build a life that brings you joy. Remove from your life things that no longer serve your happiness. Dispose of old clothes, stale bread, dead flowers and most especially judgemental people – they’re not helping you to grow or glow.”
― Midlife in Gretna Green
― Midlife in Gretna Green
“For all the women who’ve never been skinny dipping because you weren’t skinny. You can go chunky dunkin’ with me and the Kingman boys.”
― The Wiener Across the Way
― The Wiener Across the Way
“To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.”
― Midlife in Gretna Green
― Midlife in Gretna Green
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