Bri > Bri's Quotes

“To be in exile is to have the things you love most in the world - the air you breathe, the earth you walk upon - taken from you. They exist on the other side of a wall - there and not - unaltered by time and circumstance, preserved in a perfect memory in a land of dreams.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana

“Life is too short to be unhappy, to play it safe. To do what is expected of you rather than follow your heart”
― Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“Freedom isn't enough. What I desire doesn't have a name yet.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“I don't miss it, because I have my childhood more now than when it was happening...”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“It's a hard pill to swallow when you have to admit, even to yourself, that you were wrong about the person you were certain was perfect for you.”
― Tracey Garvis Graves, The Girl He Used to Know

“Sometimes it's important to let the people we care about know that a single incident doesn't have to define them”
― Tracey Garvis Graves, The Girl He Used to Know

“I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they “want to do” and start asking them what they don’t want to do.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“Saying “yes” doesn’t mean I don’t know how to say no, and saying “please” doesn’t mean I am waiting for permission.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes, and dreams. We are not a cult. This religion is not a joke. We are not what you think we are from looking at T.V. We are real. We laugh, we cry. We are serious. We have a sense of humor. You don't have to be afraid of us. We don't want to convert you. And please don't try to convert us. Just give us the same right we give you--to live in peace. We are much more similar to you than you think.”
― Margot Adler

“The witch is undoubtedly the magical woman, the liberated woman, and the persecuted woman, but she can also be everywoman.”
― Kristen J. Sollee, Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive

“The witch is at once female divinity, female ferocity, and female transgression. She is all and she is one. The witch has as many moods and as many faces as the moon.”
― Kristen J. Sollee, Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive

“Witches have always been women who dared to be: groovy, courageous, aggressive, intelligent, nonconformist, explorative, curious, independent, sexually liberated, revolutionary.
-W.I.T.C.H”
― Kristen J. Sollee, Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive

“If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a witch.
-W.I.T.C.H”
― Kristen J. Sollee, Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive

“The idea of the witch has always been about subversive feminine power that doesn't align with conventional norms.”
― Kristen J. Sollee, Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive

“The Witch represents notions of a strange, unconventional, frighteningly, powerful womanhood. She is a servant to no one.”
― Kristen J. Sollee, Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive

“Witches. These are strong women that are often misunderstood by the world.”
― Kristen J. Sollee, Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive

“Learning to accept and even love difference, as she pointed out, is important for the future of the human race. There is great comfort in realizing that differences within a family have an important purpose.”
― Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

“To write is to bring an inner voice into the outer world, to believe that our thoughts are worth entering the thinking of others, and to make real what has never existed in quite the same way before. What could be a better path to self-value than that?”
― Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

“The voting booth is the one place on Earth where the least powerful and the most powerful are equal.”
― Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

“Women have to learn how to talk as much as we listen. Men have to learn how to listen as much as they talk.”
― Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

“Men can be just as loving and nurturing as women-- it's a libel on men to say they can't-- but we all learn by example. Boys just need nurturing men in their lives so they know it's okay for them to be nurturing.”
― Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

“Women are becoming the men we wanted to marry. (But too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry)”
― Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

“When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Whether we work to live, as most of us do, or live to work, as some of us are lucky enough to do, work doesn't have to be a four-letter word. It can and should be a source of belonging, growth, and pleasure.”
― Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

“Women are always saying, "We can do anything that men can do." But men are not saying, "We can do anything that women can do.”
― Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

“The media are not reality; reality is reality.”
― Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion