The Rule Book

by Sarah Adams

Because when a man doesn’t encourage you to reach for the stars, Nora Bug, he’s putting you in a glass jar to contain your light. We don’t have to settle for air through holes poked in the top of a lid. We get to become stars ourselves

Love your body—it works hard for you every day of your life.

Feminism, my love, is about uplifting women and fighting for our rights to equality and choice. If your choice is to follow your career, I will fight for that until my dying breath. If your choice is to be married and become a mother, or even a combination of both, I will fight for that until my dying breath too. It’s not about what that choice is, it’s about your freedom to make it.

I’m a warm little caterpillar in a cocoon of comforters.

sounds like a dream

He puts his mouth right next to my ear and whispers, “And maybe we could even…coordinate a calendar schedule.” I moan theatrically. “You’re so dirty.”

Nora is so me

This one’s for my girls: Dream even bigger. Reach impossibly higher. Don’t you dare ever settle.