Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Orson Welles

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

Sienna Miller

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

Honore de Balzac

Always remember who you are and where you have come from while in the process of being found by others

Bathsheba Dailey

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Betty Friedan

If you want to correct your own failings, you do not have the time to waste in blaming other people.

Leo Tolstoy

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

Jack Henry Abbott

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Juvenal

The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

Sigmund Freud

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Henry Miller

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

China Mieville

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Friedrich Durrenmatt