Madeline Louden

“consent is an ongoing process, not a one-time choice.”
― Amy Gahran, Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life

“KAREN: Sometimes I wonder, if I was Graham, maybe I would have wanted a baby, too. If I knew someone else would raise it, someone else would let go of their own dreams, someone else would sacrifice and keep everything together while I went and did what I wanted and came back on weekends…maybe then I might want a baby, too.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“business. I released a secret, not caring who in my family might abandon me, because I finally understood that keeping the secret was an act of abandoning myself.”
― Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

“Many people choose solohood due to an ethical or emotional aversion to treating people like territory.”
― Amy Gahran, Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life