If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go.
“The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.”
“For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.”