I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.
Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?
There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.
I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.
There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.
But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much