No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

Sometimes you know before you know.

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all...You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions of love you've ever had. A certain richness happens only later in life. I guess its' a kind of mellowing. p 80 talking about marriage and husbands

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere.