“A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.”
“Each others' lives are our best textbooks.”
“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”
“In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.”
“We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. ”
“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
“we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud”