Kristin

“Iantha was a calm mother who didn't believe in adding to the chaos of woe....It was one of Iantha's many skills that she could listen to lots of people speaking at the same time and still get hold of the important parts." (Chapter 2)”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks in Spring

“When you soak a child in shame they cannot develop the neurological pathways that carry thought ... thoughts of self-worth.”
― Hannah Gadsby

“Self-hatred is only ever a seed planted from outside but when you do that to a child, it becomes a weed so thick and it grows so fast, that child doesn't know anything different. It becomes as natural as gravity.”
― Hannah Gadsby

“Laughter is not our medicine. Stories hold our cure.”
― Hannah Gadsby