This is the space where I put things when I don’t have enough time to untangle them fully. To that end, here’s the quote from Kelly Corrigan’s book Glitter and Glue. This is the quote that completely undid me this weekend; the quote I am still chewing on, observing from different angles as it brings me to tears and then awe and then shatters the box where my thoughts sit:
But now I see there’s no such thing as a woman, one woman. There are dozens inside every one of them. I probably should’ve figured this out sooner, but what child can see the women inside her mom, what with all that Motherness blocking out everything else?