The Best American Essays 2021 Quotes

“No matter how intellectual and multicolored motherhood becomes as children grow older, the part that says My purpose on earth is to keep you alive has never totally dissipated. Magical thinking on all sides.”
― Robert Atwan, The Best American Essays 2021

“The experience delivered me into the central project of my adult life as a writer, which is to know and love what we have been given, and to urge others to do the same.”
― Robert Atwan, The Best American Essays 2021