“I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy.”

“The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don’t have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.”

“New mothers enter the world of parenting feeling much like Alice in Wonderland.- Being a mother is one of the most rewarding jobs on earth and also one of the most challenging.- Motherhood is a process. Learn to love the process.- There is a tremendous amount of learning that takes place in the first year of your baby’s life; the baby learns a lot, too.- It is sometimes difficult to reconcile the fantasy of what you thuoght motherhood would be like, and what you thought you would be like as a mother, with reality.- Take care of yourself. If Mommy isn’t happy, no one else in the family is happy either.- New mother generally need to lower their expectations.- A good mother learns to love her child as he is and adjusts her mothering to suit her child.”

“It takes a lot more energy to bury pain than it does to confront it.”

“It takes a lot more energy to be covert and sneaky than it does to be open and honest.”

“It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.”