Madelyne LeDrew > Madelyne's Quotes

“There is no such thing as a happy place. Because when you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“She doesn’t see the point in staying alive only to do all the same things that made her want to die.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“becoming who you want to be is just like anything else. It takes practice. It requires belief that one day, you’ll wake up and be a natural at it.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“And maybe that’s it: You do things in the moment for the person you hope you might be two years from now.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Know your worth, girls. You’re not lucky to be at the party; the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

“Don’t waste energy living a life someone else designed for you. Life is one per customer. Let them do theirs. You do yours.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

“Some friendships just have their seasons, and that's ok.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

“The rise of selfie culture isn’t about vanity; it’s about women taking back control of our images—and our self-images. I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Discuss amongst yourselves.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

“Girl-shaming as a sport and industry needs to be over.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

“I don’t choose to revisit that which is divisive. I’m only interested in that which is healing.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

“To survive this, I could not let my mind succumb to the misery that threatened to strangle me.”
― Sadeqa Johnson, Yellow Wife

“You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you didn’t know —William Wilberforce”
― Sadeqa Johnson, Yellow Wife

“Mama always said the way to keep peace with white folks was to be available and invisible at the same time.”
― Sadeqa Johnson, Yellow Wife

“The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“If you’ll pardon me for making this somewhat prosaic observation – maybe that’s what life is, or ends up being most of the time: a rehearsal for a performance that never eventually materializes.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“I use the word love loosely, and only because my vocabulary is unequal to the task of describing the precise nature of that maze, that forest of feelings”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“But eventually, the Elixir of the Soul that had survived wars and the bloody birth of three new countries, was, like most things in the world, trumped by Coca-Cola.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“People—communities, castes, races and even countries—carry their tragic histories and their misfortunes around like trophies, or like stock, to be bought and sold on the open market.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“You understand that if you must learn to love a man, he is probably not the man you should be loving.”
― Cherie Jones, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

“She did not understand that for the women of her lineage, a marriage meant a murder in one form or the other.”
― Cherie Jones, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

“Rabbi Alfred Bettleheim once said: “Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words

“Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words

“Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words

“the next time he
points out the
hair on your legs is
growing back remind
that boy your body
is not his home
he is a guest
warn him to
never outstep
his welcome again”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.”
― Rupi Kaur

“depression is silent
you never hear it coming
and suddenly it's
the loudest voice in your head”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“if you tried
and didn’t end up
where you wanted to go
that’s still progress”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body