Katie

“You are all the joy I hope to absorb and observe, love and learn from in the years and decades to come. I have given myself over to you both in ways you will never know. And that’s okay. That’s what mothers do. I hope you will fall in love—with yourselves, with your lives, with only the people who truly deserve you. And I am beyond words and thoughts and thank-yous that you are mine.
My perfectly imperfect children.”
― Kimberly Harrington, Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words

“I fantasized about having a mother who was also raised on Sesame Street, Happy Meals, and John Hughes movies. Maybe she could ask me white mom questions like “How are you feeling?” or say white mom things like “I love you to the moon and back.” We would share the same first language. She could help me pick out a dress that I actually liked, instead of the dress that was most discounted. We would understand each other and not fight as much.”
― Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

“Pregnancy makes me feel trapped sometimes, but other times I think, You'll never be this free again.”
― Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready

“Growing up in our home, there was no conflict between science and spirituality. My parents taught me that nature as revealed by science was a source of great, stirring pleasure. Logic, evidence, and proof did not detract from the feeling that something was transcendent—quite the opposite. It was the source of its magnificence.”
― Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World