“I was your home for a while, I think, as I hold your head in the palm of my hand. And I will be your harbor for a long time yet. But not forever.”
― The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
― The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
“No one blinks when a father continues devoting himself to whatever it is he most wants to accomplish in this world. But a wife and mother who has priorities of her own and refuses to put them last? Hers becomes a life of conflict, between who she is and what is expected of her. Society deems her selfish and unnatural. If she lets herself believe it, she’s doomed, and so are her children.”
― The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
― The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
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