Before her son was born, Jahren was worried that she would not be able to give a child all of her love; however, she adores her son, and he has changed her outlook on parenting. After a grueling pregnancy that involved hospital stays and electroconvulsive therapy (she couldn’t take her bipolar medication during pregnancy due to health risks for the baby), Jahren delivered a healthy nine-pound baby boy, whom she immediately fell in love with. Her son is different from her in many ways: he uses his favorite tree, the foxtail palm, for batting practice rather than scientific inquiry, and is more emotionally balanced like Clint, while Jahren is more emotionally tumultuous.
Jahren’s Son Quotes in Lab Girl
The Lab Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Jahren’s Son or refer to Jahren’s Son. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 3: Flowers and Fruit
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When I wake, I hold my baby and I think about how he is my second opal that I can forever draw a circle around and point to as mine.
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Hope Jahren (speaker), Jahren’s Son
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While I am too impulsive and aggressive to think of myself as a proper woman, I will also never fully shake this dull, false belief that I am something less than a man.
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Jahren’s Son Quotes in Lab Girl
The Lab Girl quotes below are all either spoken by Jahren’s Son or refer to Jahren’s Son. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 3: Flowers and Fruit
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When I wake, I hold my baby and I think about how he is my second opal that I can forever draw a circle around and point to as mine.
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Hope Jahren (speaker), Jahren’s Son
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While I am too impulsive and aggressive to think of myself as a proper woman, I will also never fully shake this dull, false belief that I am something less than a man.
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Hope Jahren (speaker), Jahren’s Son
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