It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.
Jeanne Marie LaskasI was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.
Jeanne Marie LaskasBut the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.
Jeanne Marie LaskasDreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.
Jeanne Marie LaskasThis is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to be rich and famous. That thatโs why people do what they do. And you know, all through these pages you learn over and over again no, actually not even NFL cheerleaders are doing it for fame and fortune. Thereโs another motivation going on that is so pure and human. That to me was an eye-opener in a really wonderful way.
Jeanne Marie Laskas