Did you ever really love her? Not really no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz? - Miranda July

Without a child I could dance across the sexism of my era, whereas becoming a mother shoved my face right down into it.

It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.