A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's diet is insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless. — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do, I have to do something to keep myself… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
“We wore that grief like one wears one's underclothes. An invisible skin, unseen to prying eyes, but knitted to us all the same. We… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
“She always told us there were two types of women. Those who are lit from the outside and those who are lit from within.… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake. — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own. — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
“But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
I think it's very, very, very hard to get a book published. I never want to be one of those teachers that say, 'don't… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born. — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
“I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
“To those who believe the dead do not visit them, I say you have cataracts in your soul. I am a man of science,… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
