Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs In Heaven Quotes

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.

She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.