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“You and I are now the Romeo and Juliet of friendships. Only we’re the Juliet and Juliet.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, To Night Owl from Dogfish

“Maybe under the stress of new parenthood, whatever adult personality I’d concocted was being stripped for parts, and I would be left with only my teenage core.”
― Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready

“I was a woman sobbing in a hotel corridor, which is kind of incredible, because when I was little I thought I was going to be a senator.”
― Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It

“Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken”
― M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party