Elizabeth

“. . . some women don't have trouble staying sober when they're pregnant because those hormones are like God's sedatives and somehow make abstaining from alcohol seem like a totally reasonable idea.”
― Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol

“Could I even write another book if I couldn't drink away the goblins in my brain that whispered mean things to me while I sat in front of my laptop struggling to put words on the page? You have no talent. You're not funny. Why would anyone pay you to write? You're going to have to give the advance back because you can't do it. Ha ha ha. Maybe you should've gone to college. Also you need to lose ten pounds. The goblins always managed to get in a little weight jab while they were at it.”
― Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol

“Try this: Think about what the words 'pigeon' and 'dove' mean to you. Many people think of pigeons as dirty and doves as peaceful, elegant, and even holy. But you've been fooled by Big Dove. Technically speaking, pigeons and doves are the same thing.”
― Rosemary Mosco, A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird

“Pigeons take incubation seriously--maybe too seriously. Sometimes house sparrows pull feathers from the butts of nesting pigeons to line their nests. The pigeons weather this injustice stoically and just keep on incubating their eggs.”
― Rosemary Mosco, A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird