Laura

“Normal is often treated as a moral judgment, when it is often simply a statistical matter. The question of what everyone else is doing is less important than the question of what works for the two people in the actual relationship. It matters that everyone’s needs are carefully considered and respected, not that everyone is doing the same thing.”
― Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

“I've lived the life I wanted in my thirties, my forties, my fifties - they're all different lives, with different desires, which you never realize when you're young.”
― Lauren Sandler, One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One

“She doesn’t see the point in staying alive only to do all the same things that made her want to die.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“It seems the more of a parent you are, the less you are of anything else.”
― Lauren Sandler, One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One