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“Such was my elation that I ran inside, put on our ancient cracked record of Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ and danced all by myself for half an hour in our living room, without inhibition, almost crying with jubilation—not just about the wood, but because I could live competently some of the time, and because that day I liked myself.”
― Helen Garner, Monkey Grip: A Novel

“I thought about the patterns I make in my life: loving the wrong person, loving not enough and too much and too long.”
― Helen Garner, Monkey Grip

“I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental diurnal patterns – they don’t go without saying: they are acquired, if not violently imposed. It is a lived and not an abstract form of knowledge that comes from living alongside a beginner – the way the days can all of a sudden feel like they're undivided, divided by nothing, only water.”
― Kate Briggs, The Long Form

“To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others.”
― Jill Ciment, Consent: A Memoir