Tricia

“Becoming a mother forced me to have hope.”
― Nefertiti Austin, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it’s the mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that’s going to do the most work to innovate and survive. We”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Women of any race shouldn’t have to be superstars for our status as mothers to be respected, no matter what each woman’s path to motherhood is.”
― Nefertiti Austin, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

“In order to become the mother I wanted to be, I had to develop true compassion for the parents I’d had.”
― Nefertiti Austin, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America