Top 35 Gabby Rivera Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “To love another woman is to look at yourself in the mirror and determine that you are worthy of the galaxy and its fury. To love another woman is to love yourself more than you love her.”

— Gabby Rivera

2. “You will meet people who’ll change the course of your life forever. Learn when to hold onto yourself and when to fly directly into the storm.”

— Gabby Rivera

3. “When the chaos settles and the smoke clears, take inventory of who’s still by your side. Walk into the light together.”

— Gabby Rivera

4. “If it’s a phase, so what? If it’s your whole life, who cares? You’re destined to evolve and understand yourself in ways you never imagined before. And you’ve got our blood running through your beautiful veins, so no matter what, you’ve been blessed with the spirit of women who know how to love.”

— Gabby Rivera

5. “All of the women in my life were telling me the same thing. My story, my truth, my life, my voice, all of that had to be protected and put out into the world by me. No one else.”

— Gabby Rivera

6. “Who needs a girlfriend when you have abandonment issues and super-powers?”

— Gabby Rivera

7. “To love another woman is to streak naked across the sky, swallow the sun in one bite, and live aflame. To love another woman is to look at yourself in the mirror and determine that you are worthy of the galaxy and its fury. To love another woman is to love yourself more than you love her.”

— Gabby Rivera

8. “When boys talked, it sounded like feral dogs barking. They fiended for attention, were always aggressive, and made me wish I could put them down.”

— Gabby Rivera

9. “Forge your path. Crack your ancestors wide open. By any means necessary, unearth your roots.”

— Gabby Rivera

10. “Make your own religion out of doubt and curiosity.”

— Gabby Rivera

11. “All of the moments where I was made to feel like an outsider in a group that was supposed to have room for me added up and left me feeling so much shame.”

— Gabby Rivera

12. “You gonna get a cut?” Blue Lips asked. “I’m afraid of looking like a dyke,” I said. “Are you a dyke?” “I think so.” “Then no matter what you do with your hair, you’re gonna look like a dyke,” Blue Lips said. They.”

— Gabby Rivera

13. “Read because you’re tired of secrets.”

— Gabby Rivera

14. “The world is filled with enough room to flee at any moment. In.”

— Gabby Rivera

15. “Read everything you can push into your skull. Read your mother’s diary. Read Assata. Read everything Gloria Steinem and bell hooks write. Read all of the poems your friends leave in your locker. Read books about your body written by people who have bodies like yours. Read everything that supports your growth as a vibrant, rebel girl human. Read because you’re tired of secrets.”

— Gabby Rivera

16. “Seriously, some of my best friends are libraries.”

— Gabby Rivera

17. “I’m going to love you without being in love with you.”

— Gabby Rivera

18. “You’re just some lady that wrote a book. But I fall asleep with that book in my arms because words protect hearts and I’ve got this ache in my chest that won’t go away.”

— Gabby Rivera

19. “We lived loud and hard against a neighborhood built to contain us. We moved like the earth pushing its way through cement sidewalks.”

— Gabby Rivera

20. “How was I supposed to survive here? These Portlanders were an entirely different breed of white people.”

— Gabby Rivera

21. “Every day that we exist on this planet the forces of white men in power are aimed at policing women’s bodies and subjugating our identities to make us feel lesser than, to control us through physical and economic annihilation.”

— Gabby Rivera

22. “It made me wonder about all the ways that we are able to love each other and how movies and TV make it seem like you have to discard people once they break your heart or once the love disappears.”

— Gabby Rivera

23. “Feminism. I’m new to it. The word still sounds weird and wrong. Too white, too structured, too foreign; something I can’t claim.”

— Gabby Rivera

24. “Be brave, America. Be soft. Remember to twist the value sometimes and release all the pressure inside. What you’ve been through doesn’t have to be what you are or who you become.”

— Gabby Rivera

25. “But it was August and what does love mean at the end of a summer?”

— Gabby Rivera

26. “Own your power, own your connection to Mother Earth. Howl at the moon, bare your teeth, and be a goddamn wolf.”

— Gabby Rivera

27. “Make plans. Train your body. Follow the guiding spirits. Be ready for anything, but never seek control. It’s an illusion. You control nothing. At any point, the universe can come for you – with all its might and love and chaos.”

— Gabby Rivera

28. “Peggy told me to plan it out, that I could find the answer if I just looked hard enough. Storm said to center myself in the chaos. No one has ever told me that before. It’s like they gave me permission to be a damn supernova.”

— Gabby Rivera

29. “Get a little hysterical, Juliet. I mean that’s why vibrators were invented, right?”

— Gabby Rivera

30. “Did love make me run from Harlowe to Miami or did I get here because I loved myself enough to fly away?”

— Gabby Rivera

31. “And, like, does anyone really want to chill with random boys besides straight girls and other random boys?”

— Gabby Rivera

32. “I was used to the buttoned up, wealthy, Casper-skinned whites that always spoke in their library voices and used words like sassy and spicy to describe me. I was used to white people that embodied the suburban American dream. White people like Lainie’s parents, who wished their daughters weren’t dating me, but tolerated it and engaged me in discussions about affirmative action and how I benefited from it.”

— Gabby Rivera

33. “Scrape knees for love. Tell hard truths for love. And definitely run heart-first into the unknown for love. Try to have a plan. But if you don’t, make sure you have people. You coming, mi gente?”

— Gabby Rivera

34. “I wondered if there was a price to pay for this peace.”

— Gabby Rivera

35. “You can’t just go punching a bunch of kids in the face. Remember, you were once that kid looking for someone, anyone to connect to. That’s still you.”

— Gabby Rivera