My Mother's Kitchen Quotes

“My dad was wise enough to see what no one else could see about my mother at the time, including my mother: she was restless. She was ready to evolve. It was time, at the age of fifty-three, for her to become a different person. My dad loved the person she'd been for her first fifty-three years. He was secure enough, comfortable enough in his own skin, and confident enough in my mother that he knew he would also love whoever she became for the rest of their time together. And that the new Judy would love him right back.”
― Peter Gethers, My Mother's Kitchen: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and the Meaning of Life

“Families are delicate things. Who's to say why or how we end up the way we do or become who we are? Parents make mistakes. A child's job is to overcome those mistakes. We can blame our parents - and our own past - for only so long before it becomes an excuse and a crutch. That's my position on family dynamics and I'm sticking to it. Sometimes you just have to assume responsibility for your own life and grow up.”
― Peter Gethers, My Mother's Kitchen: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and the Meaning of Life