Lorraine

“How does one reconcile the autonomy, agency, responsibility, and mutuality? What’s mine to carry, what’s someone else’s to carry, and what do we hold collectively?”
― Mia Birdsong, How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

“Perhaps most damaging, it includes a toxic individualism that creates barriers to deep connection and intimacy. When we are oriented toward doing it ourselves and getting ours, we cut ourselves off from the kinds of relationships that can only be built when we allow ourselves to be open and generous.”
― Mia Birdsong, How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

“Freedom was the idea that together we can ensure that we all have the things we need—love, food, shelter, safety.”
― Mia Birdsong, How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

“the only threats Stacy had with which to entertain herself were the ones she could think up on her own.”
― Scott Smith, The Ruins