Others Like Me Quotes

“When people preface their sympathies to tragedy with “as a mother” or “as a father,” they may think they are enhancing their feelings, but what they are doing is reinforcing the belief that there is less compassion in those who are not parents, which is not true.”
― Nicole Louie, Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children

“I was feeling the lack of something that would keep me busy, not the conscious desire to become a mother.”
― Nicole Louie, Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children

“How was that possible? Motherhood as the epicentre of women’s lives was all I’d ever witnessed, so how was it that the centre was not there when it came to my own life? Was I hollow, or was my centre elsewhere?”
― Nicole Louie, Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children

“made”
― Nicole Louie, Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children

“choose my path, which included options they never had.”
― Nicole Louie, Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children