Jodi Picoult
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Marriage is never fifty-fifty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly... someone else sails along for the ride.
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Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. One comes to believe that this life one is wearing will never really fit.
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Motherhood is about finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without. It is about picking up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands.
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Motherhood is having a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel.
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Motherhood is n’t just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
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Pregnancy is an experience where, when you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep it close enough for comfort.