It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
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Anne Tyler
It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.
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Trevor Noah
Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.
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Traci Brimhall
We must accept the idea that having a male child has a unique social and psychological meaning for a woman. Even women who led the movement to break out the passivity and sublimation of the female role were deeply influenced by the belief in superior...
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Klein Carole
All human life on the planet is born of woman. The one unifying, incontrovertible experience shared by all women and men is that months-long period we spent unfolding inside a woman’s body. Because young humans remain dependent upon nurture for a much longer period than...
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Adrienne Rich
More Quotes By Rebecca Woolf
Advice to friends. Advice to fellow mothers in the same boat. "How do you do it all?" Crack a joke. Make it seem easy. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Make everything seem easy. Make life seem easy and parenthood and marriage and freelancing for pennies, writing a novel...
Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.