Sara Green

“We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at it? Like, you've been in a maiming car accident and then you're supposed to want to get back in the car? I mean, what?”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich

“It might benefit all of us to realise that systematically forcing the individual to misplace their attention is a hallmark of fascism”
― Ece Temelkuran, Together: 10 Choices for a Better Now

“According to a code I had absorbed from childhood, to be dubbed selfish was the worst thing I knew. I has accepted the somewhat negative idea of unselfishness as the ultimate goal of all my childhood efforts to be good. I do not think I ever critically considered just what I meant by unselfishness, but now the word awakens a picture of continual restlessness in which someone is always half rising from the most comfortable chair in the room and saying “Do sit here”
― Marion Milner, A Life of One's Own

“She waited to die until I left the room, which is a thing I’ve heard parents do. I can imagine it. I mean, you’re never done being somebody’s mom, ever, are you? She took care of me until the very end.”
― Catherine Newman, Sandwich