“Old age teaches you in a very unkind way that things wont necessarily get better. Not in this life. In fact, you can pretty much count on things degenerating. Being content is not a lack of ambitio...”

“Old age teaches you in a very unkind way that things won’t necessarily get better. Not in this life. In fact, you can pretty much count on things degenerating. Being content is not a lack of ambiti...”

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”

“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”

“I began to see that while equality often entailed women crossing the sexual divide between women's work and men's work, equality rarely meant that men crossed over the divide to the women's side: o...”

“The disparity, however, between the rewards offered in the labor market and the vital interest to have good dependency care makes it clear that market forces have not been relied upon to supply ade...”

“There were moments when it hurt so bad you couldnt breathe, yet somehow you survived the pain. There were days when you could barely put one foot in front of the other, yet somehow you arrived at y...”