Mandy

“Anyone desperate enough to escape can lose themselves in the delicious twists of novels, allow themselves to be transported into the bodies of wild women or small hungry boys, taken to strange cities or enchanted woods, dropped into wartime or the end of times.”
― Georgia Harper, What I Would Do to You

“Humans don’t fall in love with the person; we fall in love with the lesson they’re here to teach us. When that lesson is done, it’s done.”
― Gina Chick, We Are the Stars

“A middle-aged woman’s midlife crisis does, I know, pose a dramaturgical problem. In my observation—and as many experts I’ve spoken with have affirmed—women’s crises tend to be quieter than men’s. Sometimes a woman will try something spectacular—a big affair, a new career, a “she shed” in the backyard—but more often she sneaks her suffering in around the edges of caretaking and work.”
― Ada Calhoun, Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis

“In my experience, there is only one thing worse for a woman’s mental health than trying to be a superhero, and that is being told to “chill”—especially since any efforts to do so incur swift blowback.”
― Ada Calhoun, Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis