Renee

“Oh my God! You're wearing your bowling shoes! Only you would wear bowling shoes to your child's sickbed.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“We bear financial responsibilities that men had in the old days while still saddled with traditional caregiving duties. We generally incur this double whammy precisely while hitting peak stress in both our careers and child-raising--in our forties, at an age when most of our mothers and grandmothers were already empty nesters.”
― Ada Calhoun, Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

“Maybe the Generation X story need not be: We're broke. We're unstable. We're alone. Maybe it can be: We've had a hard row to hoe. We've been one big experiment. And yet, look at us: we've accomplished so much.”
― Ada Calhoun, Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

“It’s a strange state of vacillating between having our shit together and feeling less and less like we give a damn about what the rest of the world thinks.”
― Ada Calhoun, Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis