Top 200 Glennon Doyle Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Our minds are excuse makers; our imaginations are storytellers. So instead of asking ourselves what’s right or wrong, we must ask ourselves: What is true and beautiful?”

— Glennon Doyle

202. “You’ll never be forced to hide or act in order to keep people if you don’t hide or act to get them.”

— Glennon Doyle

203. “Girls and women want to be liked. We want to be trusted. So we downplay our strengths to avoid threatening anyone and invoking disdain. We do not mention our accomplishments. We do not accept compliments. We temper, we qualify, and discount our opinions. We walk without swagger and we yield incessantly. We step out of the way. We say I feel like instead of I knew. We ask if our ideas make sense instead of assuming they do. We apologize for everything.”

— Glennon Doyle

204. “I’ve seen what happens out in the world and inside our relationships when women stay numb, obedient, quiet, and small. Selfless women make for an efficient society but not a beautiful, true, or just one. When women lose themselves, the world loses its way.”

— Glennon Doyle

205. “Grief is a cocoon from which we emerge new.”

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206. “Maybe we are all fire wrapped in skin, trying to look cool.”

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207. “The boys looked inside themselves. The girls looked outside themselves. We forgot how to know when we learned how to please.”

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208. “In a culture as imbalanced as ours – in which a few hoard billions while others starve, in which wars are fought for oil, in which children are shot and killed while gun manufacturers and politicians collect the blood money – mercy, humanity, and vulnerability cannot be tolerated. Mercy and empathy are great threats to an unjust society.”

— Glennon Doyle

209. “I want to be found in love, not lost in it.”

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210. “I will never promise to be this way or that way, I will only promise to show up, as I am, wherever I am. That’s it, and that’s all. People will like me or not, but being liked is not my One Thing; integrity is. So I must live and tell my truth. Folks will come around or quit coming around. Either way: lovely. Anything or anyone I could lose by telling the truth was never mine anyway. I’m willing to lose anything that requires me to hide any part of myself.”

— Glennon Doyle

211. “I am a sensitive introverted woman, which means that I love humanity but actual human beings are tricky for me. I love people but not in person.”

— Glennon Doyle

212. “I want us all to grow so comfortable in our own feelings, our own knowing, our own imagination that we become more committed to our own joy, freedom, and integrity than we are to manipulating what others think of us. I want us to refuse to betray ourselves. Because what the world needs now in order to evolve is to watch one woman at a time live her truest, most beautiful life without asking for permission or offering explanation.”

— Glennon Doyle

213. “It wasn’t enough for women to have equality with men; they needed equality with each other.”

— Glennon Doyle

214. “Parenthood is thinking: This is too much. I cannot lead them. But I will do the thing I cannot do.”

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215. “Grief shatters. If you let yourself shatter and then you put yourself back together, piece by piece, you wake up one day and realize that you have been completely reassembled.”

— Glennon Doyle

216. “Consumer culture promises us that we can buy our way out of pain – that the reason we’re sad and angry is not that being human hurts; it’s because we don’t have those countertops, her thighs, these jeans. This is a clever way to run an economy, but it is no way to run a life.”

— Glennon Doyle

217. “Femininity” is just a set of human characteristics a culture pours into a bucket and slaps with the label “feminine.”

— Glennon Doyle

218. “I’m trying to strip myself down to my barest essentials so I can figure out where I begin and where the woman the world told me to be begins.”

— Glennon Doyle

219. “Since it doesn’t use words to explain itself to me, I quit using words to explain myself to the world. This is the most revolutionary thing a woman can do: the next precise thing, one thing at a time, without asking permission or offering explanation. This way of life is thrilling.”

— Glennon Doyle

220. “There is no glory except straight through your story.”

— Glennon Doyle

221. “The moment after we don’t know what to do with ourselves is the moment we find ourselves.”

— Glennon Doyle

222. “I did not know that I was supposed to feel everything. I thought I was supposed to feel happy.”

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223. “I see that you’re upset. Are you ready for a solution yet? Or do you just need to feel this way for a while?”

— Glennon Doyle

224. “All of the beliefs that anger delivers come with a return label.”

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225. “My only expectation is that you become yourself. The more deeply I know you, the more beautiful you become to me. If someone tells you who they are, consider how lucky you are to be graced with that gift. Don’t respond with an eviction notice, a permission slip, or a concession speech. Un-God yourself. Gasp in awe and applaud with gusto.”

— Glennon Doyle

226. “What many tell me is that they harbor an achy, heavy hunch that their lives, relationships, and world were meant to be more beautiful than they are.”

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227. “I don’t think that gayness is contagious. But I am certain that freedom is.”

— Glennon Doyle

228. “We obsess over our children’s snacks while they rehearse their own deaths in active-shooter drills at school. We agonize over their college prep while the earth melts around them. I cannot imagine that there has ever been a more overparented and underprotected generation.”

— Glennon Doyle

229. “I want to fall in grown-up love. I want risky, true, scary love. I want to learn how to let my body bring me to love with an equal partner. I want that.”

— Glennon Doyle

230. “When she becomes upset, we assume she has her own valid reason. So we say, “I see that you’re upset. Are you ready for a solution yet? Or do you just need to feel this way for a while?”

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231. “When women write to me in the language of indoctrination – when they use words like good and should and right and wrong – I try to speak back to them in the language of imagination.”

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232. “My whole life is an apology, and that hasn’t made a damn thing better. Mary had known. She had understood: A woman doesn’t need to be told, yet again, that she’s bad. She needs to be told that she’s good.”

— Glennon Doyle

233. “This is why they call it falling in love, because there is suddenly no solid ground beneath you anymore.”

— Glennon Doyle

234. “I am in the One Big Ache of lovepainbeautytendernesslonginggoodbye.”

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235. “If what I’ve found in the deep is just my self – if what I’ve learned is not how to commune with God but how to commune with myself – if who I have learned to trust is not God but myself – and if, for the rest of my life, no matter how lost I get, I know exactly where and how to find myself again – well, then. That is certainly enough of a miracle for me.”

— Glennon Doyle

236. “Does having the best of everything make the best people?”

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237. “Ten minutes a day is not too long to spend finding yourself, Glennon. For God’s sake, you spend eighty minutes a day finding your keys.”

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238. “Our children are too vast to fit themselves inside these rigid, mass-produced bottles. But they’ll lose themselves trying.”

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239. “God is not a being outside of me: God is the fire, the nudge, the warm liquid gold swelling and pressing inside me.”

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240. “Girls born into a patriarchal society become either shrewd or sick. It’s one or the other.”

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241. “We must be committed to holding on to nothing but the truth. We must decide that if the truth inside us can burn a belief, a family structure, a business, a religion, an industry – it should have become ashes yesterday.”

— Glennon Doyle

242. “The facts were right there in front of me to see. But the truth was right there inside of me to feel.”

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243. “Being both depressed and anxious is a bit like being Eeyore and Tigger at the same time. It’s like always living a little too low and a little too high. It’s always struggling to be at the level where life happens, which is here and now.”

— Glennon Doyle

244. “Gotta uncover before you can recover.”

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245. “I think the only way to convince anybody you are okay is just to go about being okay and let them witness it.”

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246. “Having such little faith in myself that I numb or hide or consume my way out of my fiery feelings again and again.”

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