Sarah Embaby

“Those who have been in trouble themselves are alert to it in others”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“As it happens, there are many reasons why I don’t have children: I am very good at birth control; though I love children and adore aunthood, I also love solitude; I was raised by unhappy, unkind people, and I wanted neither to replicate their form of parenting nor to create human beings who might feel about me the way that I felt about my begetters; I really wanted to write books, which as I’ve done it is a fairly consuming vocation. I’m not dogmatic about not having kids. I might have had them under other circumstances and been fine — as I am now.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions

“We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

“Liberation is always in part a storytelling process: breaking stories, breaking silences, making new stories. A free person tells her own story. A valued person lives in a society in which her story has a place.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms