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Top 200 Emily Nagoski Quotes (2024 Update)
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Emily Nagoski Quote: “And what a men-as-default, puritanical culture expects, wants, and likes is pleasure for men and babies for women.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “We also know that the brain can handle only a limited amount of information at a time; at its simplest, we can think of stress as information overload, so when there’s too much happening, the brain starts to triage, prioritizing, simplifying, and even plain old ignoring some things.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “A simple, practical exercise is to breathe in to a slow count of five, hold that breath for five, then exhale for a slow count of ten, and pause for another count of five. Do that three times – just one minute and fifteen seconds of breathing – and see how you feel.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Polite, socially acceptable suppression of our rage is “inauthentic,” insofar as we are not sharing our full selves. And that is part of trust, too. Part of being trustworthy is meeting expectations and staying in line, as if you were a well-behaved woman.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “And if a giver doesn’t obediently and sweetly hand over whatever a being wants, for that, too, the giver may be punished, shamed, or even destroyed.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “In terms of that little monitor in your brain, the solution is to sustain just a little bit of dissatisfaction – not enough to cross into frustration and certainly not so much that you fall off the cliff into the pit of despair, but enough to nourish your curious, “moving-toward” energy.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “The quality of our lives, day to day, is measured by our freedom to choose to stay or leave. That freedom comes when we have abundance enough and safety enough to let go of what is broken and reach for something new.17.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Not knowing why is, itself, a profound type of suffering.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “And the answer is, of course, “Ugh, patriarchy.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “If you’re anxious or depressed, you are less curious about novelty and are more interested in being in a comfortable, familiar environment.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Happiness is predicated on ‘happenings,’ on what’s occurring, on whether your life is going right, and whether all is well. Joy arises from an internal clarity about our purpose.”1 When we engage with something larger than ourselves, we make meaning; and when we can resonate, bell-like, with that Something Larger, that’s joy.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “If you’re a woman in the industrialized West, you’ll confront a particular set of enemies that will try to cut you down to size, over and over, and they’ll lie to your face while they do it, saying it’s for your own good, saying you should be grateful for their “help.” And because we’ve been confronting these enemies literally since before we were born, we often believe them.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Science is often expensive, and who pays for it can influence the outcome and whether or not the results are published. As enthusiastic as we are about evidence-based practices, it’s important to remember where that evidence comes from and why we might not see contrary evidence.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “This means intentionally adding distance that creates an edgy instability or uncertainty, a slight and enjoyable dissatisfaction.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “When you were born, you were deeply, gloriously satisfied with each and every part of your body.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “The problem is not that women don’t try. On the contrary, we’re trying all the time, to do and be all the things everyone demands from us.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Wellness is not a state of being, but a state of action.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “And the resource abundance of the environment you’re in changes how you decide to quit or stay. In a resource-rich environment, people actually quit and move on to the next opportunity sooner, because the risk of the move is lower. It’s easier to change jobs when you’ve got four offers. It’s easier to leave a bad relationship when you can go straight to a loving relationship with someone else.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “As Naomi Wolf puts it, “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience.” Thin bodies are the bodies of women who behave themselves.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “When we feel distressed, our attachment object is our safe haven. Even – or perhaps especially – if our attachment object is the source of our distress.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “When you are cruel to yourself, contemptuous and shaming, you only increase the cruelty of the world; when you are kind and compassionate to yourself, you increase the kindness and compassion in the world. Being compassionate toward yourself- not self-indulgent or self-pitying, but kind- is both the least you can do and the single most important thing you can do to make the world a better place... the world is changed when we change.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “In short, emotions are tunnels. If you go all the way through them, you get to the light at the end. Exhaustion happens when we get stuck in an emotion.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “We can think of insecure attachment as fitting into two different strategies: anxious and avoidant.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “It makes perfect sense when you think about it. If you’re moving toward a specific, desired goal, your attention and efforts are focused on that single outcome. But if you’re moving away from a threat, it hardly matters where you end up, as long as it’s somewhere safe from the threat.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “It turns out everyone’s sexual desire is responsive and context dependent. It just feels more spontaneous for some and more responsive for others, because even though we’re all made of the same parts, the different organizations of those parts results in different experiences.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “We call her “the madwoman in the attic,” and she’s the subject of the next, and last, chapter.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “We’ve locked ourselves, culturally, into our own fear, rage, and despair. We must build time, space, and strategies for discharging our stress response cycles.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Realistic expectations can make all the difference-for instance, it’s normal for it to take six months to a year for a couple to get pregnant, and 15 percept of couples don’t conceive within that first year.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Recovery requires an environment of relative security and the ability to separate the physiology of freeze from the experience of fear, so that the panic and the rage can discharge, completing their cycles at last.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “And then, as Christopher Hitchens puts it, when you’re a parent, “your heart is running around inside someone else’s body.”17.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Allowing time and space for your body to move all the way through the cycle, to discharge stress and to connect wholly with your partner, is an essential part of creating a context that grants maximum access to pleasure.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Never say anything to yourself that you wouldn’t want to say to your best friend or your daughter.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “The cure for burnout is not “self-care”; it is all of us caring for one another. So we’ll say it one more time: Trust your body. Be kind to yourself. You are enough, just as you are right now. Your joy matters. Please tell everyone you know.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “2. Social Appropriateness. Sometimes the brain activates a stress response and you can’t do the thing it’s trying to tell you to do:.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “A final caution: Too often, we mistake dealing with the stressors for dealing with the stress.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “But survival is not recovery; survival happens automatically, sometimes even against the survivor’s will.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Everyone’s life is different, and we are all doing our best. “Our best” today may not be “the best there is,” but it’s the best we can do today. Which is strange. And yet true. And could draw us down into helplessness and isolation if we don’t stay anchored. And the way we stay anchored is with gratitude.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Why is it dying?” to “Wow!” And it’s this: responsive desire.1 Responsive, in contrast to spontaneous desire.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “These changes in perception are not “just in your head.” People who are given a drug that will relax them and are told, “This is a drug that will relax you,” not only feel more relaxed compared to those who got the drug but not the information, they also have more of the drug in their blood plasma.11 Context changes more than how you feel; it can change your blood chemistry.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Let’s invent a ritual where women celebrate the transition into their postpartum bodies. I mean, it’s not just its appearance that changes, it’s what your body means, to yourself and to the world.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Emotional exhaustion happens when we get stuck in an emotion and can’t move through the tunnel. In Human Giver Syndrome, the giver isn’t allowed to inconvenience anyone with anything so messy as emotions, so givers are trapped in a situation where they are not free to move through the tunnel. They might even be punished for it.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Affection. When friendly chitchat with colleagues doesn’t cut it, when you’re too stressed out for laughter, deeper connection with a loving presence is called for. Most often, this comes from some loving and beloved person who likes, respects, and trusts you, whom you like, respect, and trust.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Images matter. They tell us what’s possible, what things go together, what belongs and what doesn’t belong. And we’re all just trying to belong somewhere.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Dealing with your stress is a separate process from dealing with the things that cause your stress. To deal with your stress, you have to complete the cycle.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “We thrive when we have a positive goal to move toward, not just a negative state we’re trying to move away from. If we hate where we are, our first instinct often is to run aimlessly away from the owl of our present circumstances, which may lead us somewhere not much better than where we started. We need something positive to move toward. We need the cheese.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Your pleasure belongs to you, to share or keep as you choose, to explore or not as you choose, to embrace or avoid as you choose.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “How do we work with the organic intelligence of the body to heal? Instead of managing what comes up from the body, we work with it, trusting its purpose and direction, while holding a very particular, healing framework.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “With positive reappraisal, you can acknowledge when things are difficult, and you recognize that the difficulty is worth it – it is in fact an opportunity.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Why we fall in love is attachment, which is sort of a biological pursuit of wholeness.”
Emily Nagoski Quote: “Being grateful for good things doesn’t erase the difficult things.”
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