East Winds Quotes

“Though travel offers no lasting cure for everyday or big-picture stresses (there is no escape from ourselves), those memories felt far away, ages ago.”
― Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

“But certainty didn't exist, contrary to some of the religious frameworks I'd been taught. True faith meant exercising trust in something unseen, hoped for, believed in, felt, but something ultimately unknowable.”
― Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

“Sometimes I'm grateful to find out that I'm wrong.”
― Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

“Healthy relationships, I was beginning to accept, could weather the occasional spat.”
― Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

“Well-behaved women seldom make history." This famous quote found on bumper stickers and protest signs is often misattributed.”
― Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

“I wanted to please everyone-an impossibility. The noise of everyone else's expectations and concerns drowned out whispers of my own inclinations.”
― Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

“Forgetting, I would learn, could be just as useful as remembering in a long-term partnership.”
― Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

“Career wasn't a thing I'd been encouraged to consider with specificity, but I wanted one. I knew I was ambitious. I knew I liked to write. I knew I loved to read and critically engage with books. I knew I craved authentic, meaningful conversations and connections, had a knack for listening, and a capacity for empathy. I knew I wanted to contribute to the world, help others, and maybe even go to that elusive thing called grad school. All of this, at the time, seemed impossible to negotiate with a husband.”
― Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

“Under the ties, I understood that I was no longer a carefree child. The real possibility that a person-any person-could leave, hit me for the first time. One day, sooner than I could have imagined, it would be my turn to go. Not like a gentle beach breeze, but like an east wind storm.”
― Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage