Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.
Jodi PicoultYou don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
Jodi PicoultGay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
Jodi PicoultWas it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
Jodi Picoult