80 Quotes by Laurie Frankel

It’s not a book club if there isn’t wine.

Fitting in and being normal doesn’t exist; not for a few years in the middle.

Our road trip makes me see that needing help doesn’t mean there aren’t other places to get it besides home, other people who can provide it besides family, that having limits doesn’t mean I cannot – must not, maybe – bewitch and bewilder, range far and wander wide and wild. For home is like black holes – no matter how small, no matter how humble, they capture everything in range and trap it inside. The only way to escape their draw is to be far enough away.

How did you teach your small human that it’s what’s inside that counts when the truth was everyone was pretty preoccupied with what you put on over the outside too?

Our first concern is his happiness of course; but not just today.” Because it wasn’t that simple, was it? Raising children was the longest of long games.

Just because it’s made up, doesn’t mean it isn’t real,” said Penn. “Made up is the most powerful real there is.

Mistake good because you learn, you fix.” “I don’t know how,” said Rosie. “Middle way.” “At home, there is no middle way. You’re male or you’re female. There’s no in between. You conform or you hide. You conform or you’re wrong. If you dress like a girl, then you have to be a girl, all girl, and if any part of you’s not, that’s not okay.” “Not just middle way between male and female. Middle way of being. Middle way of living with what is hard and who do not accept you.

Because when a little girl wants to wear jeans and play soccer, her parents are thrilled, but when a little boy wants to wear a dress and play dolls, his parents send him to therapy and enroll him in a study. We just don’t know yet the long-term effects on these kids of puberty suppression.

Bedtime could only be followed by TV. Or drinking.