“I've learned that I have to stop equating saying yes with being a good person. I think I am being good when I say yes to everything, but saying yes to something I cannot live up to leads to bittern...”

“Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.”

“I'd rather be a 'THINKER' - Two Healthy Incomes No Kids Early Retirement!”

“Invalidating a womans life choices by saying things like, Oh, but youll regret it if you dont have kids, or, I didnt think I wanted kids either until I had one, is like me going to an Alcoholics An...”

“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.”

“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.”

“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.”

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”

“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”

“He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.”