What did I do to make Mommy leave? You didn't do anything. This isn't your fault. Then why? she'd wailed. I don't know, her daddy had said, and he looked so sad. It isn't fair! No, it isn't, baby. Not by a mile. The world's only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your own little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

Beauty Queens (ed. 2011)