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No matter whether your children are in the other room, or miles away from you, I hope you can find a quiet place to sit down and immerse yourself in the words and musings of your fellow mothers.

“I learned to go easier on myself and to give myself grace. We have to do that because it allows us to appreciate more deeply what we can do and have done.”

“If I can make one woman feel seen and less alone about what she’s going through, whether it’s body image, motherhood, marriage, her relationship with her own mom, or her relationship with her children, then I will have done my job with my fiction.”

“Every one of our limbs is being stretched in a different direction until our heads pop off. There’s too much to keep track of all the time.”

In this conversation, an abortion care worker, funder, doula, and mother shares insights on the act of abortion and current abortion treatment in the US.

“That’s what I want: for people to stop feeling bad about their emotions.”

“Whenever I sit down to work on a piece of writing, I ask, what is the best form for this content? What is the container and why?”

Are momfluencers giving us unrealistic expectations, or showing us how to claim ownership of our work and voices?

The narrator in Naming the Ghost must decide if the ghost is the loss of a parent or the loss of who she was before motherhood.

Reading American Honey reminded this writer of how much common ground we mothers share.

Who gets to tell the story when a marriage falls apart?