“This was loss that ruined your life leading straight to gain that saved it. It wasn’t silver lining; it was a whole… — Laurie Frankel Life Copy Share Image
“These kids, her multitudes, they could grow up. They could move Away. They could—they would—become new, become changed, become actual adult people… — Laurie Frankel Children Copy Share Image
“I wish for my child, for all our children, a world where they can be who they are and become their most… — Laurie Frankel Children Copy Share Image
“...just to be with you. That's what you do for me. You simply outweigh everything else. That's how love should be, I… — Laurie Frankel Love Copy Share Image
“Mistake good because you learn, you fix.” “I don’t know how,” said Rosie. “Middle way.” “At home, there is no middle way.… — Laurie Frankel Failure Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.” — Laurie Frankel Love Copy Share Image
“I'm so sorry because it's still not easy. You have a long, hard, terrible road ahead. There are lots of ways to… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go… — Laurie Frankel Books Copy Share Image
“Sam rocked backwards and felt all the breath leave his body. Sam felt all his breath leave the room, the apartment, the… — Laurie Frankel Dark matter Copy Share Image
“If you don’t worry about something until it’s already a problem,’ said Rosie, ‘that’s not worry. That’s observation.” — Laurie Frankel Fear Copy Share Image
“All life. You are never finish, never done. Never become, always becoming. You know? Life is change so is always okay you… — Laurie Frankel Change Copy Share Image
“It happens to everyone," she assured Princess Stephanie. "It does?" Stephanie doubted it. "Sure. Everyone's someone else sometimes. Everyone transforms. Maybe not… — Laurie Frankel Change Copy Share Image
“But there was a catalyst, an event, a moment which changed everything and not just for us. This is good for storytelling… — Laurie Frankel Decision making Copy Share Image
“After that she'd have to go elsewhere anyway for breadth of experience. A different part of the world where she would develop… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
“There are few children more treasured than ill-behaved ones who belong to someone else.” — Laurie Frankel Children Copy Share Image
“parenting always involves this balance between what you know, what you guess, what you fear, and what you imagine.” — Laurie Frankel Parenting Copy Share Image
“Not ever. Not once. You never know. You only guess. This is how it always is. You have to make these huge… — Laurie Frankel Time Copy Share Image
“They say it is what you never imagine can be lost that is hardest to live without.” — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
“Grass stain?” “Annoying, probably permanent, essentially harmless. Kind of ugly.” — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
“This is how it always is. You have to make these huge decision on behalf of your kid, this tiny human whose… — Laurie Frankel Birth control Copy Share Image
“Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.” — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
“Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want.” — Laurie Frankel Desire Copy Share Image
“You could sit down with another mom, even one halfway around the world whose life was very different from your own, and… — Laurie Frankel Around the world Copy Share Image