Bonnie Garmus

Actually, when you think about it, rowing is almost exactly like raising kids. Both require patience, endurance, strength, and commitment. And neither allow us to see where we’re going—only where we’ve been

“Don’t work the system. Outsmart it.”

“When I was a kid,” Calvin said quietly, “I used to tell myself every day was new. That anything could happen.”
She took his hand again. “Did it help?”
His mouth sagged as he remembered what the bishop at the boys home had revealed to him about his father. “I guess I’m just saying we shouldn’t let ourselves get stuck in the past.”

Physical suffering, he’d long ago learned, bonds people in a way that everyday life can’t.

Courage is the root of change—and change is what we’re chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself back. No more subscribing to others’ opinions of what you can and cannot achieve. And no more allowing anyone to pigeonhole you into useless categories of sex, race, economic status, and religion. Do not allow your talents to lie dormant, ladies. Design your own future. When you go home today, ask yourself what you will change. And then get started.”

did not care for people who made assumptions based on what she felt were long-outdated visual clues

Elizabeth Zott held grudges too. Except her grudges were mainly reserved for a patriarchal society founded on the idea that women were less.

When one is raised on a steady diet of sorrow, it’s hard to imagine that others might have had an even larger serving.

Physical suffering, he’d long ago learned, bonds people in a way that everyday life can’t.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t function without her, he told Four Seat, but rather that he didn’t see the point of functioning without her.