Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. – Nancy Chodorow
I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I dont even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours. – Rita Rudner
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. – Eudora Welty
When youre looking that far out, youre giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesnt need translation. Its like poetry, it touches you. – Story Musgrave
