31 Quotes by Rivka Galchen

I had considered envying men before – I pretend to envy things like their higher incidence of ungrounded confidence and monomania – but I don’t really envy those things, and I’m not sure I even believe in them – but this, the covert-baby-having thing, was the first real thing.

The room was too much there. I could feel the color of the wallpaper – burgundy – invading.

Books for young children rarely feature children. They feature animals, or monsters, or, occasionally, children behaving like animals or monsters. Books for adults almost invariably feature adults.

Now it seems there are many more varieties of ‘normal’ family.