Preetika

“No coincidence, no story.”
― Lisa See, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

“there are countless good and right ways to be a woman and only two wrong. The first is to insist that your way is “the” way, the only way. The second is to buy into that nonsense and to spend your life limping along an aimless path in shoes that will never fit.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Books sprung from an author’s imagination can be just as meaningful as those based on facts, figures, and events, or even more meaningful. Novels force you to think—to make your own conclusions about characters and themes, and decide if they’re valid or relevant or true or good, or the opposite, or maybe somewhere in between. My personal preference is for in between. I don’t think I’ve ever met anybody who was all one thing or the other, have you? Most people are a walking bundle of contradictions.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“The invisible fence of rules and mores that confined women to a small, carefully defined patch of human achievement impacted men as well, required them to carry the bulk of a family’s financial burden, even if it meant doing work they disliked.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women