Status Updates From My Name Is Lucy Barton

“This is a story about a mother who loves her daughter. Imperfectly. Because we all love imperfectly. But if you find yourself protecting anyone as you write this piece, remember this: You’re not doing it right’”.

“ I have said before: it interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it’s the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.”

“This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can’t possibly be true”.