“I need you to know: I hated that I needed more than this from him. There is nothing more humiliating to me than my own desires. Nothing that makes me hate myself more than being burdensome and less than self-sufficient. I did not want to feel like the kind of nagging woman who might exist in a sit-com.” LoveDesireLonelinessBurdenWomanhoodHumiliation Book:The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays Source: The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
“In the driveway of the old house,I released my biological family from my unreasonable expectations of how much we could possibly be to one another. How much I expected them to teach me.Do for me. And this freed them to be what they actually are to me. Which is plenty” HumourMemoirEssays Book:The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays Source: The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays