Amy Holibaugh

“my eyes are so tired, and when I close them I can still picture the water lapping at the shore, and the way we were wild. Nothing about me feels wrong.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“The thing that gets me thinking and questioning most deeply is a leader who warns me not to think or question.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Think of us what you will, she thought, we made mistakes, and probably scarred our children for life, and we froze sandwiches, and forgot car pool, and got divorced. But when the time came, we went the distance.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“the women and men I interviewed who had the strongest sense of true belonging stayed zoomed in. They didn’t ignore what was happening in the world, nor did they stop advocating for their beliefs. They did, however, commit to assessing their lives and forming their opinions of people based on their actual, in-person experiences. They worked against the trap that most of us have fallen into: I can hate large groups of strangers, because the members of those groups who I happen to know and like are the rare exceptions.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone