“There will always be children and there will always be old people. We spend most of our lives somewhere in between. When we produce the children, we get to be royalty for a short while – the world pulls out its chair for the pregnant woman – but soon we are once again worker bees, tending the little ones.”

“There will always be children and there will always be old people. We spend most of our lives somewhere in between. When we produce the children, we get to be royalty for a short while – the world pulls out its chair for the pregnant woman – but soon we are once again worker bees, tending the little ones.”

— Elizabeth Alexander