Ariel Gore

“I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.”

“When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.”

“A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.”

“Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.”

“I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.”

“Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.”