Tiffany

“even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not.”
― Ann Hood, The Book That Matters Most

“I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Those who have taken a rather more pragmatic and individualist position on not having children tend to talk directly in terms of personal fulfillment. They have made a choice to live their lives in a particular way, associating motherhood with burden and loss—of freedom, energy, money, pleasure, intimacy, and even identity. A child is synonymous with sacrifice and frustrating, even repellent, obligations; it is perhaps a threat to the stability and happiness of one’s relationships. They refer to themselves as “child-free” rather than childless because they are free of children and therefore of motherhood.”
― Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women