The Cost of Living

There were many modern and apparently powerful women I knew who had made a home for everyone else, but did not feel at home in their family home.

When a woman has to find a new way of living and breaks from the societal story that has erased her name, she is expected to be viciously self-hating, crazed with suffering, tearful with remorse.

We stood up, put on our coats and kissed each other goodbye.

Sorrow does not have a century.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we’ll all get home safely.

She had witnessed the courage of the African children in her country of birth who lost their parents in the struggle for human rights like other children lost their milk teeth.

There were many modern and apparently powerful women I knew who had made a home for everyone else, but did not feel at home in their family home.

Life was hard and I had no script.

Yes, it is sometimes agonizing to feel things. I had spent the last few months trying not to feel anything at all. Bourgeois had learned to sew at an early age in her parents’ tapestry business.

Now that I was no longer married to society, I was transitioning into something or someone else