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  • #1
    Glennon Doyle
    “When a woman finally learns that pleasing the world is impossible, she becomes free to learn how to please herself.”
    Glennon Doyle, Untamed

  • #2
    Victoria Schwab
    “If she must grow roots, she would rather be left to flourish wild instead of pruned, would rather stand alone, allowed to grow beneath the open sky. Better that than firewood, cut down just to burn in someone else’s hearth.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #3
    Victoria Schwab
    “But if you only walk in other people's steps, you cannot make your own way. You cannot leave a mark.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #4
    Glennon Doyle
    “This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.”
    Glennon Doyle, Untamed

  • #5
    Victoria Schwab
    “Adeline was going to be a tree, and instead, people have come brandishing an ax.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #6
    Glennon Doyle
    “When women lose themselves, the world loses its way. We do not need more selfless women. What we need right now is more women who have detoxed themselves so completely from the world's expectations that they are full of nothing but themselves. What we need are women who are full of themselves. A woman who is full of herself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done. She lets the rest burn.”
    Glennon Doyle, Untamed

  • #7
    Glennon Doyle
    “I will not stay, not ever again - in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself.”
    Glennon Doyle, Untamed

  • #8
    Victoria Schwab
    “And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it.
    Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow?
    Were the moments of beauty worth the year of pain?
    And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says 'Always.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #9
    Victoria Schwab
    “Nothing is all good or all bad," she says. "Life is so much messier than that."

    And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it.

    Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow?

    Were the moments of beauty worth the years of pain?

    And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says, "Always.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #10
    Glennon Doyle
    “Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right.”
    Glennon Doyle, Untamed

  • #11
    Glennon Doyle
    “Privilege is being born on third base. Ignorant privilege is thinking you’re there because you hit a triple. Malicious privilege is complaining that those starving outside the ballpark aren’t waiting patiently enough.”
    Glennon Doyle, Untamed

  • #12
    Glennon Doyle
    “Blessed are those brave enough to make things awkward, for they wake us up and move us forward.”
    Glennon Doyle, Untamed

  • #13
    Glennon Doyle
    “Be careful with the stories you tell about yourself".”
    Glennon Doyle, Untamed

  • #14
    Glennon Doyle
    “We weren’t born distrusting and fearing ourselves. That was part of our taming. We were taught to believe that who we are in our natural state is bad and dangerous. They convinced us to be afraid of ourselves. So we do not honor our own bodies, curiosity, hunger, judgment, experience, or ambition. Instead, we lock away our true selves. Women who are best at this disappearing act earn the highest praise: She is so selfless. Can you imagine? The epitome of womanhood is to lose one’s self completely. That is the end goal of every patriarchal culture. Because a very effective way to control women is to convince women to control themselves.”
    Glennon Doyle, Untamed

  • #15
    Glennon Doyle
    “You are here to decide if your life, relationships and world are true and beautiful enough for you. And if they are not and you dare to admit they are not, you must decide if you have the guts, the right - perhaps even the duty - to burn to the ground that which is not true and beautiful enough and get started building what is.”
    Glennon Doyle, Untamed

  • #16
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #17
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #18
    John Steinbeck
    “I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #19
    Kristin Hannah
    “I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #20
    Margaret Atwood
    “No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #21
    Celeste Ng
    “It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother? Was it biology alone, or was it love?”
    Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

  • #22
    Nicole Krauss
    “She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #23
    Jodi Picoult
    “When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep it close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.”
    Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

  • #24
    “MOTHER IS WATER

    I wish I could
    Shower your head with flowers
    And anoint your feet with my tears,
    For I know I have caused you
    So much heartache, frustration and despair –
    Throughout my youthful years.
    I wish I could give you
    The remainder of my life
    To add to yours,
    Or simply erase
    The lines on your face,
    And mend all that has been torn.
    For next to God,
    You are the fire
    That has given light
    To the flame in each of my eyes.
    You are the fountain
    That nourished my growth,
    And from your chalice –
    Gave me life.
    Without the wetness of your love,
    The fragrance of your water,
    Or the trickling sounds of
    Your voice,
    I shall always feel
    thirsty.”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

  • #25
    Anna Quindlen
    “The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.”
    Anna Quindlen

  • #26
    Sharon Creech
    “Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.”
    Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

  • #27
    Fredrik Backman
    “Being a mother can be like drying out the foundations of a house or mending a roof: it takes time, sweat, and money, and once it's done everything looks exactly the same as it did before. It's not the sort of thing anyone gives you praise for.”
    Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

  • #28
    Kate Atkinson
    “If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.”
    Kate Atkinson, Case Histories

  • #29
    Nicole Krauss
    “Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a mother can't protect her child - not from pain, or horror, or the nightmare of violence, from sealed trains moving rapidly in the wrong direction, the depravity of strangers, trapdoors, abysses, fires, cars in the rain, from chance.”
    Nicole Krauss, Great House

  • #30
    Kristin Hannah
    “There was something she hadn't known when she went into marriage and became a mother that she knew now: it was only possible to live without love when you'd never known it.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds



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